| Cheiruridae Temporal range: Ordovician–Devonian |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Trilobita |
| Order: | Phacopida |
| Family: | Cheiruridae Hawle & Corda, 1847 |
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The family Cheiruridae was a family of phacopid trilobites of the suborder Cheirurina. Its members, as with other members of the suborder, had distinctive pygidia modified into finger-like spines. They first appeared near the very beginning of the Ordovician, and persisted until the Devonian.[1]