Bolbocephalus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | †Trilobita |
Order: | †Proetida |
Family: | †Bathyuridae |
Subfamily: | †Bathyurinae |
Genus: | †Bolbocephalus Whitfield, 1890 |
Type species | |
Bathyurus seelyi Whitfield, 1886
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Other species | |
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Bolbocephalus is a genus of proetid trilobites in the family Bathyuridae. Species lived during the early part of the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period,[1] a faunal stage which lasted from approximately 478 to 471 million years ago, in marine strata of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.[2]