Uncaspis

{{short description|Extinct genus of trilobites}}

{{Taxobox

|name = Uncaspis

|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

|superfamilia =Ptychoparioidea

|familia = Crepicephalidae

|genus = Uncaspis

}}

Uncaspis 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.

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