# Furcalithus

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{{Short description|Extinct genus of trilobites}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = Early [Arenig](/source/Arenig)
| taxon = Furcalithus
| authority = Fortey & Owens, 1987
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 
}}

'''''Furcalithus''''' is an [extinct](/source/extinct) [genus](/source/genus) from a well-known class of [fossil](/source/fossil) marine [arthropod](/source/arthropod)s, the [trilobite](/source/trilobite)s. It lived during the early part of the [Arenig stage](/source/Arenig) of the [Ordovician Period](/source/Ordovician_Period),<ref name="bare_url" /> a [faunal stage](/source/faunal_stage) which lasted from approximately 478 to 471 million years ago.<ref name="bare_url">{{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 
 |accessdate=2008-01-12 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060905162524/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class 
 |archivedate=2006-09-05 
}}</ref>

==References==
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Category:Trinucleidae
Category:Asaphida genera
Category:Ordovician trilobites
Category:Fossils of Great Britain
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