Champlainia

Champlainia; Temporal range: Cambrian
Conservation status
	Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Trilobita
Family:	Ptychopariidae
Genus:	Champlainia

Champlainia is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the Cambrian Period,^[1] which lasted from approximately 542 to 488 million years ago.

^ ^a ^b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2006-09-05. Retrieved 2008-01-12.