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Crepicephalina

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Ptychopariida
    Superfamily:  
Crepicephalacea
    Family:  
Crepicephalidea
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Crepicephalina RESSER & ENDO, in KOBAYASHI, 1935 KOBAYASHI (non RESSER & ENDO), 1935
    Type Species:  
Crepieephalus eonvexus WALCOTT, 1913]


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Fossil Image
Fig. 187, 2. ·C. eonvexa (WALCOTT), Liau-tung, Manch.; 2a,b, cran.; 2e,d, pyg., both X2 (37).


Synonyms

Mesoerepieephalus


Geographic Distribution

E.Asia


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Cam.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 4
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
512.3
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Cam.
    Ending International Stage:  
Guzhangian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
0
    Ending Date:  
498.75


Description

Eyes slightly behind center of glabella; palpebral furrows deep but eye ridges faint; preglabellar area narrow to absent; with occipital node or short spine; fixigenae horizontal, with palpebral area less than 0.5 of glabellar width, posterior area of medium length (tr.). Pygidium subquadrate; axis convex, wider than pleural regions, 0.8 of pygidial length, with 2 to 4 axial rings; 3 low, broad pleurae curve sharply back into base of spines, border along posterior only.




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