Batocara

{{Short description|Genus of trilobites}}

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|name=Batocara

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| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Trilobita

| ordo = Phacopida

| familia = Encrinuridae

| genus = Batocara

| genus_authority = Strusz, 1980

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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| synonyms = * Pacificurus{{citation |url=http://www.australianmuseum.net.au/Uploads/Journals/15328/1278_complete.pdf |title=A Giant New Trimerellide Brachiopod from the Wenlock (Early Silurian) of New South Wales, Australia

|first1=D.L. |last1=Strusz |first2=I.G. |last2=Percival |first3=A.J. |last3=Wright |first4=J.W. |last4=Pickett |name-list-style=amp |first5=A. |last5=Byrnes |journal=Records of the Australian Museum |volume=50 |issue=2 |pages=171–186 |date=1998-10-07 |doi=10.3853/j.0067-1975.50.1998.1278 |issn=0067-1975}}

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Batocara is a genus of phacopid trilobites in the family Encrinuridae. The type species, B. bowningi, was described originally as Encrinurus bowningi by Foerste in 1888.{{cite web |url=http://eurekamag.com/research/006/671/encrinuridae-similar-trilobite-families-description-silurian-species-fromeastern-australia.php |title=Encrinuridae Similar Trilobite Families Description Silurian Species from Eastern Australia |work=EurekaMag |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308105105/http://eurekamag.com/research/006/671/encrinuridae-similar-trilobite-families-description-silurian-species-fromeastern-australia.php#.T1iPGvbP1hE |archive-date=2012-03-08 |date=2012}} In 1980, D.L. Strusz erected Batocara for 'Encrinurus' bowningi. Batocara also contains the species B. borenorense,{{cite journal |title=Effaced Styginid Trilobites from the Silurian of New South Wales |first1=D.J. |last1=Holloway |name-list-style=amp |first2=P.D. |last2=Lane |year=1998 |journal=Palaeontology |volume=41 |issue=5 |pages=853–896 |url=https://www.palass.org/publications/palaeontology-journal/archive/41/5/article_pp853-896}} Batocara tuberosus and B. fritillum.