{{Short description|Extinct genus of trilobites}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Arenig|Arenig|Arenig}} | taxon = Mendolaspis | authority= Rusconi, 1951 | type_species = ''Mendolaspis salagastensis'' | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = *''M. doidyx'' *''M. salagastensis'' }}
'''''Mendolaspis''''' is an extinct genus of trilobites. It lived during the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period,<ref name="strata.ummp">{{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> approximately 478 to 471 million years ago.
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