Thymurus

{{Short description|Genus of arthropods (fossil)}}

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{{Taxobox

|name = Thymurus

|status = fossil

|fossil_range = Early Arenig{{cite journal

| last = Sepkoski| first = Jack| author-link = 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| access-date = 2008-01-12 }}

|regnum = Animalia

|phylum = Arthropoda

|classis = Trilobita

|ordo =

|superfamilia =

|genus = Thymurus

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Thymurus is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the early part of the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period, a faunal stage which lasted from approximately 478 to 471 million years ago.