Urjungaspis

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{{Taxobox

|name = Urjungaspis

|status = fossil

|fossil_range = Cambrian{{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 = Ptychopariida

|superfamilia = Ptychoparioidea

|familia = Proasaphiscidae

|genus = Urjungaspis

}}

Urjungaspis 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 542 to 488 million years ago.

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