Ceraurus is a genus of cheirurid trilobite of the middle and, much more rarely, the upper Ordovician.

They are commonly found in strata of the lower Great Lakes region.

These trilobites have eleven thoracic segments, a very small pygidium and long genal and pygidial spines.

Ceraurus is quite common in the Ordovician of upstate New York, south-central and south-eastern Ontario, and the St. Lawrence Valley in Quebec, as well as in the Canadian Arctic.

Similar genera of trilobites occur in the Ordovician outcrops of the Volkhov River, near St. Petersburg, Russia.