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Leiobienvillia

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Ptychopariida
    Superfamily:  
Olenacea
    Family:  
Olenidea
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Leiobienvillia RASETTI, 1954
    Type Species:  
L. laevigata


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Fig. 197, 7. *L. laevigata, Newf., cran., x6 (445n).


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Geographic Distribution

NE.N.Am.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Ord.(Tremadoc.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Tremadocian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
486.85
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Ord.(Tremadoc.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Tremadocian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
477.08


Description

Cranidium uniformly convex, all furrows obsolete abaxially but adaxially with very shallow axial, occipital, and posterior border furrows, glabella low, broad, subquadrate, length about 0.8 of cranidium, with 3 pairs of shallow arcuate lateral furrows, short, convex undifferentiated frontal area, eyes small, opposite anterior third of glabella, fixigenae downsloping, with palpebral areas about 0.5 of glabellar width, posterior areas triangular, broad, medium in length (tr.), librigenae and pygidium unknown. Surface smooth. L.Ord.(Tremadoc.), NE.N.Am.




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