# Profallotaspis

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{{Short description|Genus of trilobites}}
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|fossil_range = Early [Atdabanian](/source/Atdabanian)<ref name="Sepkoski">{{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| access-date = 2008-01-12 }}</ref>
| taxon = Profallotaspis
| authority = Repina, 1965
}}

'''''Profallotaspis''''' is an [extinct](/source/extinct) [genus](/source/genus) of [trilobite](/source/trilobite)s. It lived during the early [Atdabanian](/source/Atdabanian) stage, some 520 million years ago.<ref name="Sepkoski"/> ''Profallotaspis jakutensis'' is arguably the earliest trilobite ever found. Representatives of ''Profallotaspis'' have been recorded in the provisional [Cambrian Stage 3](/source/Cambrian_Stage_3) deposits of [Siberia](/source/Siberia) and, possibly [North America](/source/North_America).

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Category:Cambrian trilobites
Category:Cambrian trilobites of North America
Category:Cambrian trilobites of Europe
Category:Fallotaspidoidea
Category:Cambrian genus extinctions
Category:Redlichiida genera

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