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Acaste
Acaste is a genus of phacopid trilobites that lived from the Silurian into the Devonian Period. Fossils are known from European marine deposits. The genus is recognized by its large schizochroal eyes, whose visual surfaces contain numerous individually lensed facets, and by the characteristic proportions of its cephalon and thorax. Acaste is useful for identifying Silurian and Devonian phacopid as...
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Reedops
Reedops is an extinct genus of phacopid trilobite known from Devonian marine rocks. Fossil studies of species such as Reedops cephalotes, Reedops sternbergi, and Reedops bronni document schizochroal eyes, a phacopid visual structure made from separate lens units set into the eye surface. The genus is therefore relevant to paleontology both as part of the Devonian trilobite record and as material f...
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