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Maladioides

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Ptychopariida
    Superfamily:  
Komaspidacea
    Family:  
Elviniidea
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Maladioides KOBAYASHI, 1933, 95
    Type Species:  
M. asiaticus


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Fig. 219, 1. *M. asiaticus, S.Manch.(Liaotung Pen.), 1 a, b, cran., dorsal (with librigena), profile, x2, 1 c, pyg., x2 (95)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

E.Asia


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Low.Upper Cambrian(Changshan.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Paibian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
494.95
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Low.Upper Cambrian(Changshan.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Jiangshanian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
0
    Ending Date:  
491.4


Description

"Glabella broad, subquadrate, sides tapered to rounded front, posterior pair of lateral furrows long, arcuate, eyes opposite or slightly anterior to center of glabella, fixigenae horizontal, with palpebral areas less than 0.5 of glabellar width, posterior area straplike, medium in length (tr.). Pygidium subtriangular, with axis tapered nearly full length, 3 axial rings, 3 broad, poorly defined pleurae, border furrow and border narrow."




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