Conocoryphe

Conocephalus Zenker, 1833, non Thunberg, 1815 (conehead bushcricket), Conocephalites, Couloumania Conocoryphe is a genus of primarily eyeless trilobites belonging to the family Conocoryphidae.

Conocephalites Barrande, 1852 was introduced as a replacement for Conocephalus Zenker, 1833, which was unavailable since Thunberg (1815 [4]) had previously used the name for a genus of conehead bushcricket.

The glabella is separated from the anterior margin by a very conspicuous narrow convex preglabellar field that is lower than and does not reach the adjacent fixigenae.

Eye ridges (when present) are threadlike, evenly curved, extending from anterior corners of the glabella to the genal angles.

The lateral cephalic border is divided longitudinally by a suture and extends into slender, backward-directed genal spines.

C. oculata has normal curving eye ridges, although the dorsal suture is marginal like in its blind family.