Balizoma

Taxobox
name = "Balizoma"


image_caption = "Balizoma variolaris" fossil
status = Fossil
fossil_range=Silurian
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Trilobita
sublcassis =
ordo = Phacopida
superfamilia =
familia =
genus = "Balizoma"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* †"B. variolaris"

"Balizoma" is a genus of trilobite from the family Encrinuridae. It has only been found in rocks of Silurian age. Its type species, "B. variolaris", was named by Alexandre Brongiart in 1822, and is found in Dudley, England, [cite web|url=http://mimsy.bham.ac.uk/detail.php?t=objects&type=browse&f=id_number&s=BIRUG%3A+BU5&record=7 |title=The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, the Lapworth Museum of Geology and the University of Birmingham Collections - Objects |publisher=Barber Institute of Fine Arts |accessdate=2008-08-15] .

ources

* Adrain, JM and GD Edgecombe, 1995, "Balizoma" and the new genera "Aegrotocatellus" and "Perirehaedulus"; encrinurid trilobites from the Douro Formation (Silurian, Ludlow) of the central Canadian Arctic, Journal of Paleontology 69(4).
* Tripp, RP, JT Temple, & KC Gass, 1977, The Silurian trilobite "Encrinurus variolaris" and allied species, with notes on "Frammia", Palaeontology 20.
* [http://www.paleodatabase.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=21455&is_real_user=1 "Balizoma"] at the Paleobiology Database