Gyrometopus

Gyrometopus; Temporal range:
	Gyrometopus lineatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Trilobita
Order:	Phacopida
Suborder:	Phacopina
Superfamily:	Dalmanitoidea
Family:	Diaphanometopidae
Genus:	Gyrometopus; Jaanusson 1975
Species
	G. lineatus (Angelin, 1854) = Nileus lineatus, Diaphanometopus lineatus;

Gyrometopus is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period, approximately 479 to 472 million years ago.

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