''Taebaeksaukia spinata'' is a species of

trilobite Trilobites (; meaning "three-lobed entities") are extinction, extinct marine arthropods that form the class (biology), class Trilobita. One of the earliest groups of arthropods to appear in the fossil record, trilobites were among the most succ ...

s in the family

Dikelocephalidae Dikelocephalidae is a family (biology), family of trilobites, that lived during the Upper Cambrian. Relatively large eyes close to the Trilobite#Cephalon, glabella, is a shared characteristic. The following genera have been assigned to this famil ...

, which existed in what is now

Korea Korea is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and smaller islands. Since the end of World War II in 1945, it has been politically Division of Korea, divided at or near the 38th parallel north, 3 ...

during the upper

Furongian The Furongian is the fourth and final epoch and series of the Cambrian The Cambrian ( ) is the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 51.95 million years from the end of the preceding ...

period. It was described in 2011, and is the only species in the genus ''Taebaeksaukia''.

References

Dikelocephalidae Asaphida genera Cambrian trilobites Fossil taxa described in 2011 Monotypic trilobite genera Prehistoric arthropods of Asia {{Asaphida-stub