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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Trilobita

Family
  
Cheiruridae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Phacopida

Genus
  
Heliomeroides Evitt, 1951

Heliomeroides is a trilobite in the order Phacopida (family Cheiruridae), that existed during the upper Ordovician in what is now the United States. It was described by Evitt in 1951, and the type species is Heliomeroides teres. The type locality was the Lincolnshire Formation in Virginia.

Species

  • Heliomeroides alacer Whittington, 1963
  • Heliomeroides evitti Baldis & Pothe, 1995
  • Heliomeroides freschaufae Chatterton, 1980
  • Heliomeroides raymondi (Bradley, 1930) - Originally assigned to Heliomera, and later moved to its current genus by Evitt in 1951.
  • Heliomeroides teres Evitt, 1951 - Type species.
  • Heliomeroides treta Evitt, 1951

    • References

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