Condylopyge

Condylopyge; Temporal range:
	Cephalon (top) and pygidium (bottom) of Condylopyge rex
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	†Trilobita (?)
Order:	†Agnostida
Family:	†Condylopygidae
Genus:	†Condylopyge; Hawle & Corda, 1847
Species
	C. rex (Barrande, 1846) (type) synonyms Battus rex, Agnostus rex; C. amitina Rushton, 1966; C. antiqua Elicki & Pillola, 2004; C. imperator Howell, 1935; C. blayaci (Howell, 1935) synonym Fallagnostus blayaci; C. globosa (Illing, 1916); C. carinata Westergård, 1936; C. cruzensis Liñan & Gozalo, 1986; C. eli Geyer, 1998; C. matutina Dean, 2005; C. regia (Sjögren, 1872); C. aff. regia (Sjögren, 1872); C. spinigera Westergård, 1944; C. vicina Egorova in Savitsky et al., 1972; C. cambrensis Hicks (in Harkness and Hicks, 1871), probably a senior synonym of C. carinata Westergård, 1936;
Synonyms
	Paragnostus; Fallagnostus;

Condylopyge is a genus of agnostid trilobite that lived during the late Lower and early Middle Cambrian, in what are today Canada (Newfoundland and New Brunswick), the Czech Republic, England and Wales, France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, the Russian Federation (North-East Siberia), Spain, Turkey and Sweden. It can easily be distinguished from all other Agnostida because the frontal glabellar lobe is notably wider than the rear lobe. It belongs to the same family as Pleuroctenium but the frontal glabellar lobe does not fold around the rear lobe, as it does in that genus. Condylopyge is long ranging, possibly spanning the early Cambrian Terreneuvian Series in Nuneaton, central England into at least Drumian strata (middle stage of the Miaolingian Series) at various locations elsewhere.