Liopelta

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{{Taxobox

|name = Liopelta

|status = fossil

|fossil_range = Cambrian{{cite journal

|last=Sepkoski

|first=Jack

|authorlink=Jack Sepkoski

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

|journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology

|volume=363

|pages=1–560

|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

|superfamilia =

|genus = Liopelta

}}

Liopelta is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived 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}}