Perryus
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| Perryus severnensis from the Attawapiskat Formation of Ontario; cranidium; holotype of the type species | |
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Perryus
Gass & Mikulic 1982
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Perryus is a genus of phacopid trilobites that lived in what are now Canada, Greenland, and Siberia from the early Silurian to the middle Silurian from 438 to 430 mya, existing for approximately 8 million years.
Taxonomy
Perryus was named by Gass & Mikulic in 1982. Jell and Adrain list it as a currently valid genus name within the Phacopida, specifically within the Encrinuridae.
Species included
Perryus bartletti Edgecombe & Chatterton, 1992; Perryus globosus (Maksimova, 1962); Perryus mikulici Hughes & Thomas, 2014; Perryus severnensis Gass & Mikulic, 1982 (type species); Perryus palasso (Lane, 1988)