Sphaerocoryphe

Genus of trilobites

Sphaerocoryphe Temporal range: Middle Ordovician–Silurian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Trilobita
Order:	Phacopida
Family:	Cheiruridae
Genus:	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

^ "Sphaerocoryphe". fossilid.info.
^ 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. doi:10.3176/geol.2004.2.03. S2CID 55808470.