Validaspis

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|fossil_range = Early Botomian{{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 }}

|image = Validaspis_judomica.jpg

|image_caption = Restoration of V. judomica

|taxon = Validaspis

|authority = Repina, 1977

}}

Validaspis is an extinct genus of ptychopariid trilobite from the superfamily Ellipsocephaloidea. It lived during the early part of the Botomian stage of the early Cambrian. Fossils of V. judomica are found in the upper portion of the Petrotsvet Formation in the Siberian Platform.Shergold, J. H., A. Yu Rozanov, and A. R. Palmer. "The Cambrian System on the Siberian Platform." Trondheim: IUGS Publication (1991).