| Tasmanocephalus Temporal range: Early Arenig[1] |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Trilobita |
| Genus: | Tasmanocephalus |
Tasmanocephalus 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[2], a faunal stage which lasted from approximately 478 to 471 million years ago.