Sphaerocoryphe
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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. doi:10.3176/geol.2004.2.03. S2CID 55808470.


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