See text Carolinites is a genus of trilobite, assigned to the Telephinidae family, that occurs during the Lower and Middle Ordovician.

Carolinites had a pantropical distribution, and there is evidence that it lived in upper parts of the water column.

The glabella is slightly bulbous, the occipital ring is well defined, but further transglabellar furrows are lacking.

The axis of the pygidium is highly vaulted, with a curved spine emerging almost perpendicular to the midline and ending parallel to it and a node on each of the other three segments.

[1][2] Carolinites is known from what are today Australia (Tasmania), Canada (Alberta), China, France, Spitsbergen, and the United States (Utah).