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Sphaerocoryphe

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Sphaerocoryphe
Temporal range: Middle Ordovician–Silurian
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Sphaerocoryphe

Angelin, 1854
Species[1]
  • Sphaerocoryphe atlantiades Öpik, 1937
  • Sphaerocoryphe cranium Kutorga, 1854
  • Sphaerocoryphe dentata Angelin, 1854
  • Sphaerocoryphe erratica Männil, 1958
  • Sphaerocoryphe punctata Angelin, 1854
  • Sphaerocoryphe schmidti Männil, 1958

Sphaerocoryphe is a genus of trilobite that lived from the middle Ordovician to the Silurian. Its fossils have been found in Australia, Europe, and North America. Both Sphaerocoryphe and Hemisphaerocoryphe had a characteristically bulbous glabella, and the two may represent only one genus.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Sphaerocoryphe". fossilid.info.
  2. ^ Helje Pärnaste (2004). "Revision of the Ordovician cheirurid trilobite genus Reraspis with the description of the earliest representative". Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Geology. 53 (2): 125–138.