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Phacopida
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Phacopida ("lens-face") is an order of trilobites that lived from the Late Cambrian to the Late Devonian. It is made up of a morphologically diverse assemblage of taxa in three related suborders.

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Phacopida ("lens-face") is an order of trilobites that lived from the Late Cambrian to the Late Devonian. It is made up of a morphologically diverse assemblage of taxa in three related suborders.

== Characteristics == left|thumb|Reconstruction of Phacops ([[Phacopidae, left) and Walliserops (Acastidae, right)]]

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