Phacops is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida, family Phacopidae, that lived in Europe, northwestern Africa, North and South America and China from the Late Ordovician until the very end of the Devonian, with a broader time range described from the Late Ordovician.
What is the size of Phacops?
Phacops rana can be recognized by its large eyes (which remind some observers of a frog's eyes—the specific name rana is a reference to a common frog), its fairly large size (up to 6 inches long), and its habit of rolling up into a ball like a pill bug ("volvation").
What Eon is Phacops?
Phacops, genus of trilobites (an extinct group of aquatic arthropods) found as fossils in Silurian and Devonian rocks (between about 359 million and 444 million years old) in Europe and North America.