Bolbocephalus

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]

Bolbocephalus
Temporal range: Early Arenig[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: †Trilobita
Order: †Proetida
Family: †Bathyuridae
Subfamily: †Bathyurinae
Genus: †Bolbocephalus
Whitfield, 1890
Type species
Bathyurus seelyi
Whitfield, 1886
Other species
  • B. angustisulcatus Poulsen, 1927
  • B. convexus (Billings, 1865)
  • B. ellesmerensis Adrain & Westrop, 2005
  • B. groenlandicus Poulsen, 1937
  • B. gunnari Fortey & Bruton, 2013
  • B. jeffersonensis Cullison, 1944
  • B. kindlei Boyce, 1989
  • B. stclairi Cullison, 1944
  • B. stevensi Boyce, 1989

References
  1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2006-09-05. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
  2. McCobb, L.M.E.; Boyce, W.D.; Knight, I.; Stouge, S. (2014). "Lower Ordovician trilobites from the Septembersø formation, North-East Greenland". Alcheringa. 38 (4): 575–598. doi:10.1080/03115518.2014.951913.


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