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Gerastos
Gerastos is a genus of Devonian proetid trilobites in the family Proetidae. Fossils attributed to the genus occur in Europe and North Africa, where they lived in shallow marine carbonate settings during the Middle Devonian. Gerastos represents a group of relatively compact trilobites with a smooth to lightly ornamented exoskeleton, a body plan suited to the diverse benthic communities of Devonian...
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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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