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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Phacopida |
| Family: | †Phacopidae |
| Genus: | †Cryphops Richter & Richter, 1926 |
Cryphops is an extinct genus of trilobite in the family Phacopidae. There are at least three described species in Cryphops.[1][2]
Species
These three species belong to the genus Cryphops:
- † Cryphops cryphoides
- † Cryphops cryptophthalmus
- † Cryphops tripartitus
Palaeobiology
Life history
Cryphops ensae had a pattern of ontogenetic development more similar to Phacops than to Trimerocephalus.[3]
References
- ^ "Cryphops". GBIF. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
- ^ "The Paleobiology Database, genus Cryphops". Retrieved 25 January 2020.
- ^ Crônier, C.; Bartzsch, K.; Weyer, D.; Feist, R. (March 1999). "Larval morphology and ontogeny of a late Devonian Phacopid with reduced sight from Thuringia, Germany". Journal of Paleontology. 73 (2): 240–255. doi:10.1017/S0022336000027748. ISSN 0022-3360. Retrieved 18 September 2026 – via Cambridge Core.
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