Balizoma

Balizoma Temporal range: Silurian

Balizoma variolaris fossil
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Trilobita
Order:	Phacopida
Family:	Encrinuridae
Genus:	Balizoma
Species
†B. variolaris

Balizoma is a genus of trilobite from the family Encrinuridae. It has only been found in rocks of Silurian age. Its type species, B. variolaris, was named by Alexandre Brongiart in 1822, and is found in Dudley, England,.^[1]

Sources

Adrain, JM and GD Edgecombe, 1995, Balizoma and the new genera Aegrotocatellus and Perirehaedulus; encrinurid trilobites from the Douro Formation (Silurian, Ludlow) of the central Canadian Arctic, Journal of Paleontology 69(4).
Tripp, RP, JT Temple, & KC Gass, 1977, The Silurian trilobite Encrinurus variolaris and allied species, with notes on Frammia, Palaeontology 20.
Balizoma at the Paleobiology Database