# Cyclopites

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{{Short description|Extinct genus of arthropods}}
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| fossil_range = [Furongian](/source/Furongian)
| image = Cyclopites.jpg
| image_caption = ''Cyclopites vulgaris'' (Raasch, 1939); Saint Lawrence Formation; Furongian; [Baraboo, Wisconsin](/source/Baraboo%2C_Wisconsin). Due to peculiarities of preservation, only the right half of the body is preserved on this specimen. Note the long, slender [telson](/source/telson) at the posterior end of the animal, and the location of the eye near the midline. Collected by Kenneth E. Gass. Specimen is 4cm long.
| display_parents = 5
| parent_authority = Raasch, 1951<ref>Raasch, G.O. (1951) Revision of the Croixan dikelocephalids. Transactions of the Illinois Academy of Science 44: 137-151</ref>
| taxon = Cyclopites vulgaris
| authority = Raasch, 1939
}}

'''''Cyclopites''''' is a genus of [aglaspidid](/source/aglaspidid) [arthropods](/source/arthropods) that lived in shallow seas in what is now [Wisconsin](/source/Wisconsin) during Late [Cambrian](/source/Cambrian) times. It is distinguished from other aglaspidids by the extreme proximity of its eyes. The genus earns its name from this presence of what might appear to be a single, central eye.<ref>Hesselbo, S.P. (1992) Aglaspidida (Arthropoda) from the Upper Cambrian of Wisconsin. Journal of Paleontology 66: 885–923</ref>

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*{{cite journal |author=Raasch, G. O. |year=1939 |title=Cambrian Merostomata |journal=Special Paper of the Geological Society of America |volume=19 |pages=1–146}}

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Category:Aglaspidida
Category:Cambrian arthropods of North America
Category:Cambrian genus extinctions
Category:Monotypic artiopod genera

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