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Dinesus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Corynexochida
    Superfamily:  
Unknown
    Family:  
Dinesidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Dinesus Etheridge, JR., 1896
    Type Species:  
*D. ida


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Fossil Image
Fig. 169, 4. *D. ida, NW. Queensl., exoskel., x1 (411).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Austral


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Low.M. Cam.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 4
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
512.3
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Low.M. Cam.
    Ending International Stage:  
Wuliuan
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
0
    Ending Date:  
504.5


Description

Glabella with single pair of posterior lateral furrows curved back to occipital furrow to produce basal lobes, with occipital node or small spine, preglabellar field very narrow, eyes of medium size, opposite center of glabella, fixigenae with palpebral areas more than 0.5 of glabellar width, posterior areas same length (tr.) as occipital ring. Thorax of 11 segments with short median axial spines or nodes. Pygidium narrowly transverse, axis semicircular, with poorly defined axial furrow, all pleural furrows obsolete




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