Harpetidae

{{Short description|Extinct family of trilobites}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Harpes perradiatus fossil trilobite (Devonian, Morocco).jpg | image_alt = | image_caption = ''Harpes perridiatus'' fossil from the Devonian of Morocco | fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Furongian|Frasnian}}<ref name="Mindat">{{cite web |title=Harpetidae |url=https://www.mindat.org/taxon-3266941.html |website=Mindat.org}}</ref><ref name="AdrainWestrop2pp4">{{cite web |last1=Adrain |first1=Jonathan M. |last2=Westrop |first2=Stephen R. |title=A Late Cambrian (Sunwaptan) silicified trilobite fauna from Nevada |url=https://iro.uiowa.edu/esploro/outputs/journalArticle/A-Late-Cambrian-Sunwaptan-silicified-trilobite/9984240919102771 |publisher=Bulletins of American paleontology}}</ref> | taxon = Harpetidae | authority = Hawle and Corda, 1847 | type_species = | type_species_authority = | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision_ref = | subdivision = See text | synonyms = | synonyms_ref = {{citation needed|date=}} }}

'''Harpetidae''' is a family of trilobites in the order Harpetida. They first appear in the Furongian (Late Cambrian) epoch.<ref name="Mindat"></ref><ref name="AdrainWestrop2pp4"></ref> The Taghanic event at the end of the Middle Devonian would impact them severely, with no genera from before surviving to the Frasnian, where two new genera, ''Eskoharpes'' and ''Globoharpes'' appear, before going extinct themselves in the Kellwasser event.<ref name="Mcnamaraetal2009"></ref> ''Globoharpes'' may be a synonym of ''Eskoharpes''.<ref name="JOHNSON2024"></ref>

==Genera== *'''Harpetidae''' **''Arraphus'' **''Bohemoharpes'' (=''Declivoharpes''; =''Unguloharpes'') **''Bowmania'' **''Brachyhipposiderus'' **''Conococheaguea'' **''Dolichoharpes'' **''Dubhglasina'' (=''Australoharpes''; ''Sinoharpes'') **''Eoharpes'' (/''Harpina'') **''Eotrinucleus'' **''Eskoharpes'' (=''Globoharpes''?)<ref name="Mcnamaraetal2009"></ref><ref name="JOHNSON2024">{{cite web |last1=Johnson |first1=Robert. G. |title=Devonian Harpetidae from the central and eastern Anti–Atlas, Morocco. |url=https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5450.1.1 |publisher=Zootaxa}}</ref> **''Globoharpes''(?) <ref name="Mcnamaraetal2009">{{cite web |last1=McNamara |first1=Kenneth J. |last2=Feist |first2=Raimund |last3=Ebach |first3=Malte C. |title=PATTERNS OF EVOLUTION AND EXTINCTION IN THE LAST HARPETID TRILOBITES DURING THE LATE DEVONIAN (FRASNIAN) |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00832.x |publisher=Palaeontology |doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00832.x}}</ref><ref name="JOHNSON2024"></ref> **''Harpes'' (=''Helioharpes''; ''Reticuloharpes'') **''Heterocaryon'' **''Hibbertia'' (/''Platyharpes''; ''Harpesoides''; ''Metaharpes''; ''Paraharpes''; ''Thorslundops''; ''Wegelinia'') **''Kathrynia'' **''Kielania'' (=''Lowtheria'') **''Lioharpes'' (=''Fritchapsis'') **''Maghroharpes''<ref name="JOHNSON2024"></ref> **''Paleoharpes'' **''Pinnuloharpes''<ref name="JOHNSON2024"></ref> **''Scotoharpes'' (=''Aristoharpes''; ''Selenoharpes''). **''Stoloharpes''<ref name="JOHNSON2024"></ref>

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Category:Trilobite families Category:Harpetida Category:Furongian first appearances Category:Frasnian extinctions