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Mansuyia

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Ptychopariida
    Superfamily:  
Damesellacea
    Family:  
Damesellidea
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Mansuyia Sun, 1924, emend. SUN, 1935
    Type Species:  
M. orientalis


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Fig. 236, 2. *M. orientalis, China(Shantung), 2 a, b, ceph., pyg., x1.3, x2(a, 478, b, 419)"


Synonyms

Paramansuyella


Geographic Distribution

East 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 convex, narrow, with rounded front, lateral furrows faint, no pre- glabellar field, broad shallow anterior border furrow, narrow upturned anterior border, eye ridges faint, eyes opposite posterior 0.3 of glabella, fixigenae with palpebral areas 0.5 of glabellar width, posterior areas narrow (exsag.), librigenae narrow, rectangular, with long slender genal spines. Pygidium semicircular, axis tapered nearly full length, with 4 axial rings and terminal, may have 2 faint additional rings, pleural fields low, same in width as axis, with 4 pleurae and 4 or 5 pleural furrows, interpleural grooves obsolete, spines developed from posterior 0.5 of 1st pleurae and anterior 0.5 of 2 nd pleurae, border undeveloped




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