Balizoma is a genus of trilobites from the family Encrinuridae established by David J. Holloway in 1980.

The neotype of B. variolaris was collected from the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation at Dudley, West Midlands.

[2] That specimen was first illustrated in Sir Roderick Impey Murchison's classic book, The Silurian System.

[3] B. variolaris was the original "strawberry-headed" trilobite of Dudley, so-named because of its nodular glabellar tubercles, and well known to early trilobite collectors.

[4] Additional species were originally assigned to Balizoma, but were subsequently placed in other encrinurine genera.