Ogygopsis is a genus of trilobite from the Cambrian of Antarctica and North America, specifically the Burgess Shale. It is the most common fossil in the Mt. Stephen fossil beds there, but rare in other Cambrian faunas. Its major characteristics are a prominent glabella with eye ridges, lack of pleural spines, a large spineless pygidium about as long as the thorax or cephalon, and its length: up to 12 cm.[1]

Ogygopsis
Temporal range: Cambrian
Ogygopsis klotzi
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Ogygopsis

Walcott, 1889

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  1. ^ Coppold, Murray and Wayne Powell (2006). A Geoscience Guide to the Burgess Shale, p. 56. The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation, Field, British Columbia. ISBN 0-9780132-0-4.
 
Reconstruction of Ogygopsis klotzi in the Burgess Shale
 
At the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.
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