Endops
Encyclopedia
Endops is a genus
of trilobite
belonging to the proetid
family Phillipsiidae
which comes from the Permian
of Japan. The type species is Paladin yanagisawai.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of trilobite
Trilobite
Trilobites are a well-known fossil group of extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita. The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record defines the base of the Atdabanian stage of the Early Cambrian period , and they flourished throughout the lower Paleozoic era before...
belonging to the proetid
Proetida
Proetida is an order of trilobite that lived from the Ordovician to the Permian. It was the last order of trilobite to go extinct, finally dying out in the Permian extinction....
family Phillipsiidae
Phillipsiidae
The Phillipsiidae comprise the last of the trilobites, with a range that extended from the Lower Mississippian , to the Upper Permian .The Phillipsiidae are sometimes defined as a subfamily, the Phillipsiinae, within the Proetidae...
which comes from the Permian
Permian
The PermianThe term "Permian" was introduced into geology in 1841 by Sir Sir R. I. Murchison, president of the Geological Society of London, who identified typical strata in extensive Russian explorations undertaken with Edouard de Verneuil; Murchison asserted in 1841 that he named his "Permian...
of Japan. The type species is Paladin yanagisawai.