''Taebaeksaukia spinata'' is a species 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 ...

s in the family

Dikelocephalidae Dikelocephalidae is a family of trilobites, that lived during the Upper Cambrian. Relatively large eyes close to the glabella The glabella, in humans, is the area of skin between the eyebrows and above the nose. The term also refers to the unde ...

, which existed in what is now

Korea Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic o ...

during the upper

Furongian The Furongian is the fourth and final epoch and series of the Cambrian. It lasted from to million years ago. It succeeds the Miaolingian series of the Cambrian and precedes the Lower Ordovician Tremadocian Stage. It is subdivided into three sta ...

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 arthropod genera Prehistoric arthropods of Asia {{Asaphida-stub