''Bolbochasmops'' is a genus of

trilobite Trilobites (; meaning "three lobes") are extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita. Trilobites form one of the earliest-known groups of arthropods. The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record defines the base of the At ...

in the order

Phacopida Phacopida ("lens-face") is an order of trilobites that lived from the Late Cambrian to the Late Devonian. It is made up of a morphologically diverse assemblage of taxa in three related suborders. Characteristics Phacopida had 8 to 19 thorac ...

, which existed in what is now

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

. It was described by McNamara in 1980, and the type species is ''Bolbochasmops emarginata'', which was originally described as ''Chasmops bucculenta'', and later as ''Phacops bucculenta'' by Schmidt in 1881.Available Generic Names for Trilobites
P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.

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''Bolbochasmops''
at the

Paleobiology Database The Paleobiology Database is an online resource for information on the distribution and classification of fossil animals, plants, and microorganisms. History The Paleobiology Database (PBDB) originated in the NCEAS-funded Phanerozoic Marine Pale ...

Fossils of Estonia Fossil taxa described in 1980 Pterygometopidae Phacopida genera {{phacopida-stub