{{Short description|Family of trilobites}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = | image = Dikelocephalus minnesotensis pygidium draw.png | image_caption = A drawing of the pygidium of Dikelocephalus minnesotensis, Order Asaphida, family Dikelocephalidae, final stage of the Upper Cambrian | taxon = Dikelocephalidae | authority = Miller, 1889 }}

'''Dikelocephalidae''' is a family of trilobites, that lived during the Upper Cambrian. Relatively large eyes close to the glabella, is a shared characteristic.<ref>{{cite journal|first= Nigel C.|last= Hughes|year= 1994|title= Ontogeny, Intraspecific Variation, and Systematics of the Late Cambrian Trilobite Dikelocephalus|journal= Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology|volume= 79|issue= 79|pages= 1–89|doi= 10.5479/si.00810266.79.1|url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/159030}}</ref> The following genera have been assigned to this family:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trilobites.info/ordasaphida.htm |title=Order Asaphida |author=S. M. Gon III |accessdate=November 14, 2010}}</ref> {{div col|colwidth=15em}} *''Berkeia'' *''Blandicephalus'' *''Briscoia'' *''Camaraspoides'' *''Dikelocephalus'' *''Elkia'' *''Goumenzia'' *''Hoytaspis'' *''Iranella'' *''Kasachstanaspis'' *''Monocheilus'' *''Olimus'' *''Osceolia'' *''Parabriscoia'' *''Patalolaspis'' *''Princetonella'' *''Pterocephalops'' *''Randicephalus'' *''Stigmacephalus'' *''Taebaeksaukia''&nbsp;<ref>{{cite journal |author=Seung-Bae Lee & Duck K. Choi |year=2011 |title=Dikelocephalid trilobites from the ''Eosaukia'' fauna (Upper Furongian) of the Taebaek Group, Korea |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=85 |issue=2 |pages=279–297 |doi=10.1666/10-034.1|bibcode=2011JPal...85..279L |s2cid=130007245 }}</ref> *''Walcottaspis'' {{div col end}}

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Category:Dikelocephalidae Category:Trilobite families Category:Cambrian first appearances Category:Cambrian extinctions

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