# Chasmops

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{{Short description|Genus of trilobites}}
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| image = Trilobit IGP4540.jpg
| image_caption = ''Chasmops'' sp.
| taxon = Chasmops
| authority = McCoy, 1849
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'''''Chasmops''''' is a [trilobite](/source/trilobite) in the order [Phacopida](/source/Phacopida) that existed during the upper [Ordovician](/source/Ordovician) in what is now [Estonia](/source/Estonia). It was described by McCoy in 1849, and the [type species](/source/type_species) is ''Chasmops odini'', which was originally described under the genus ''[Calymene](/source/Calymene)'' by Eichwald in 1840. It also contains the species ''C. maxima''.<ref>[http://www.trilobites.info/generic_names_Jell%26Adrain2003.pdf Available Generic Names for Trilobites] P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=21493 ''Chasmops''] at the [Paleobiology Database](/source/Paleobiology_Database)

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Category:Fossil taxa described in 1849
Category:Ordovician trilobites of Europe
Category:Fossils of Estonia
Category:Paleozoic life of Ontario
Category:Paleozoic life of the Northwest Territories
Category:Pterygometopidae
Category:Phacopida genera

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