Eoproetus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of trilobite}}

{{italic title}}{{Taxobox

|name = Eoproetus

|fossil_range = Cambrian{{cite journal

|last=Sepkoski

|first=Jack

|title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry)

|journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology

|volume=364

|page=560

|year=2002

|url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class

|accessdate=2008-01-12

|url-status=dead

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060905162524/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class

|archivedate=2006-09-05

}}

|regnum = Animalia

|phylum = Arthropoda

|classis = Trilobita

|ordo = Ptychopariida

|familia = Ptychopariidae

|genus = Eoproetus

}}

Eoproetus is an extinct genus of ptychopariid trilobite in the family Ptychopariidae.{{cite journal |last1=Yuan |first1=Jin Liang |last2=Li |first2=Yue |last3=Mu |first3=Xi Nan |display-authors=etal |title=Trilobite fauna of the Zhangxia Group (Cambrian Stage 3) in Shandong and adjacent regions |journal=Chinese Paleontology |volume=197 |issue=35 |year=2012}} It lived what is now China during the Cambrian Period, which lasted from approximately 539 to 485 million years ago.{{cite web |title=Stratigraphic Chart 2022 |url=https://stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/ChronostratChart2022-02.pdf |publisher=International Stratigraphic Commission | date=February 2022 |access-date=25 April 2022}}