Pricyclopyge

Pricyclopyge; Temporal range:
	P. binodosa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	†Trilobita
Order:	†Asaphida
Family:	†Cyclopygidae
Genus:	†Pricyclopyge; Richter & Richter, 1954
Type species
	Aeglina prisca;
Species
	P. prisca (Barrande, 1872); P. binodosa (Salter, 1859) P. b. binodosa; P. b. eurycephala Fortey & Owens, 1987; P. b. synophthalma (Koucek, 1916); ;

Pricyclopyge is a genus of trilobites assigned to the family Cyclopygidae that occurs throughout the Ordovician. Pricyclopyge had an extratropical distribution, and there is evidence that it lived in darker parts of the water column (around 175m deep). Pricyclopyge has huge eyes, an inverted pear-shaped glabella, six thorax segments, with on the 3rd two small discs. Pricyclopyge is known from what are today China, the Czech Republic, France, and the United Kingdom.

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