Gyrometopus

Gyrometopus
Temporal range:
Gyrometopus lineatus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Phacopida
Family: Diaphanometopidae
Genus: Gyrometopus
Jaanusson 1975
Species
  • G. lineatus (Angelin, 1854) = Nileus lineatus, Diaphanometopus lineatus

Gyrometopus is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period, approximately 479 to 472 million years ago.