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Kueichowia

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Redlichiida
    Superfamily:  
Redlichioidea
    Family:  
Kueichowiidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Kueichowia LU, 1942, p. 182
    Type Species:  
* K. liui, OD, holotype (LU, 1942, pl. 1, fig. 5a), Lu16, NIGP, Nanjing


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Fig. 299,1. *K. liui, northern Guizhou (Zunyi); holotype, cranidium, × 5.75 (W. Zhang, Lu, & others, 1980).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

China (northern Guizhou), Drepanuroides Zone.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Cambrian (“Lower Cambrian” in Trilobite volume of Treatise = current Cambrian Epoch 2 of international scale) (lower Canglangpuan)
    Beginning International Stage:  
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
517.75
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Cambrian (“Lower Cambrian” in Trilobite volume of Treatise = current Cambrian Epoch 2 of international scale) (lower Canglangpuan)
    Ending International Stage:  
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
0
    Ending Date:  
515.58


Description

Glabella slightly tapering forward, with frontal lobe well rounded, occipital furrow narrow, deep, and continuous, eye ridge stout and oblique, eye lobe medium-sized, posterior cranidial border furrow narrow and deep, anterior cranidial border furrow shallow, anterior border slightly convex, preglabellar field longer (sag.) than anterior border. Surface pustulose. Librigena, thorax, and pygidium unknown. Lower Cambrian (lower Canglangpuan): China (northern Guizhou), Drepanuroides Zone.




References



Museum or Author Information

W. Zhang, Lu, & others, 1980