| Minicephalus Temporal range: Dresbachian [1] | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | † Trilobita |
| Order: | † Corynexochida |
| Family: | † Illaenuridae |
| Genus: | † Minicephalus Lochmann and Lu, 1960 |
Minicephalus is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived from 501 to 490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period. [1]