Nephranops
| Nephranops Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Phacopida |
| Family: | †Phacopidae |
| Genus: | †Nephranops Richter, 1926 |
| Type species | |
| †Phacops incisus Roemer, 1866 | |
| Other species | |
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Nephranops is an extinct genus of phacopid trilobite that lived during the Famennian stage of the Devonian period.[1] Nephranops is known from Famennian deposits in France, Germany, and Morocco.[2]
Palaeobiology
[edit]Nephranops incisus incisus had both a planktonic and a benthic protaspid larval stage, similar to other phacopids. Its ontogeny during the meraspid phase closely resembled that of Phacops and Weyerites.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Nephranops". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 11 August 2026.
- ↑ Feist, Raimund (21 March 2019). "Post-Kellwasser event recovery and diversification of phacopid trilobites in the early Famennian (Late Devonian)". Bulletin of Geosciences. 94 (1): 1–22.
- ↑ Crônier, Catherine (July 2007). "LARVAL MORPHOLOGY AND ONTOGENY OF AN UPPER DEVONIAN PHACOPID: NEPHRANOPS FROM THURINGIA, GERMANY". Journal of Paleontology. 81 (4): 684–700. doi:10.1666/pleo0022-3360(2007)081[0684:LMAOOA]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0022-3360.