# Psilocara

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{{Short description|Extinct genus of trilobites}}
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|fossil_range = Early [Arenig](/source/Arenig)<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 = Psilocara
|authority = Fortey, 1974
}}

'''''Psilocara''''' 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=Sepkoski/> a [faunal stage](/source/faunal_stage) which lasted from approximately 478 to 471 million years ago.

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Category:Olenina
Category:Ordovician trilobites
Category:Fossils of Argentina
Category:Fossils of Norway
Category:Ptychopariida genera

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