Pemphigaspis

{{Short description|Extinct genus of arthropods}}

{{Taxobox

|name = Pemphigaspis

|fossil_range = Dresbachian{{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| access-date = 2008-01-12 }}

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Trilobita

| ordo = Ptychopariida

| familia = Catillicephalidae

|genus = Pemphigaspis

}}

Pemphigaspis 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.