Pseudogygites
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Pseudogygites is an extinct genus of the class trilobita from the middle and upper ordovician.
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[edit] Dimensions
Pseudogygites can reach 25 cms in length and 10 cms in width.
[edit] Description
The pygidium and the cephalon are about equal in size and shape. The glabella is expanded forward, reaching to the anterior margin. Pseudogygites has short genal spines and small compound eyes located in the center of the cephalon with the glabella in between. The pygidium contains faint pleural furrows and no axial rings.
[edit] Distribution
Pseudogygites is found in late Ordovician oil shales in New York, Ontario, and Southampton Island in the Canadian arctic.
[edit] Bibliography
Information taken from the Audubon Field Guide To Fossils.
