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Kaolishaniella

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Ptychopariida
    Superfamily:  
Damesellacea
    Family:  
Damesellidea
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Kaolishaniella SUN, 1935
    Type Species:  
K. transita


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Fig. 236, 3. *K. transita, China(Hopei), 3a, b, ceph., pyg., x2, (478)."


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Geographic Distribution

E.Asia


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Upper Cambrian(Kaolishan.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Paibian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
497
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Upper Cambrian(Kaolishan.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Jiangshanian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
491


Description

Glabella low, with rounded front, lateral furrows faint, preglabellar field present, no eye ridges, eyes opposite anterior 0.3 of glabella, fixigenae with arcuate palpebral areas, 0.3 of glabellar width, posterior areas of medium width (exsag.), librigenae narrow, rectangular, with short genal spines. Pygidium semicircular, axis tapered, 0.7 of length of pygidium, with 7 axial rings and terminal, pleural fields low, wider than axis, with 7 pleurae separated by curved interpleural grooves, anterior 2 segments crossed by pleural furrows, spines developed from 2nd segment, border flat




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