| Acrodirotes Temporal range: Dresbachian[1] |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Trilobita |
| Genus: | Acrodirotes |
Acrodirotes is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived from 501-490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period[1].