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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Phacopida |
| Family: | †Cheiruridae |
| Genus: | †Sphaerocoryphe Angelin, 1854 |
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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
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.