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Myrmecomimus
Classification
Phylum:
Unknown
Class:
Trilobata
Order:
Agnostida
Superfamily:
Agnostoidea
Family:
Ptychagnostidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Myrmecomimus ÖРІК, 1979, p. 136
Type Species:
M. tribulis, OD, holotype (Ö РІК, 1979, pl. 36, fig. 1, 1a, 2), CPC 14179, AGSO, Canberra
Images
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Fig. 223,6. *M. tribulis, Middle Cambrian (Undillan, Doryagnostus notalibrae Zone), Australia (north-western Mt. Isa, western Queensland); holotype, exoskeleton, CPC 14179, ×9 (new).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Australia (Queensland), P. punctuosus to D. notalibrae Zones; Russia (Siberian Platform), Pseudanomocarina Zone.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Middle Cambrian
Beginning International Stage:
Cambrian Stage 4
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
512.3
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Middle Cambrian
Ending International Stage:
Guzhangian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
0
Ending Date:
498.75
Description
Small, strongly convex, en grande tenue or with anterior glabellar lobe, median preglabellar furrow, and median postaxial furrow effaced, nonscrobiculate, nonspinose or with short cephalic spines. Posterior glabellar lobe very strongly convex, subhexagonal or subcircular, lateral glabellar furrows absent, basal lobes elongate, entire. Thorax nonspinose. Pygidial axis usually short, with very strongly inflated M2 and posterior lobe.
References
CPC
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Unknown
Class:
Trilobata
Order:
Agnostida
Superfamily:
Agnostoidea
Family:
Ptychagnostidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Myrmecomimus ÖРІК, 1979, p. 136
Type Species:
M. tribulis, OD, holotype (Ö РІК, 1979, pl. 36, fig. 1, 1a, 2), CPC 14179, AGSO, Canberra
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 223,6. *M. tribulis, Middle Cambrian (Undillan, Doryagnostus notalibrae Zone), Australia (north-western Mt. Isa, western Queensland); holotype, exoskeleton, CPC 14179, ×9 (new).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Australia (Queensland), P. punctuosus to D. notalibrae Zones; Russia (Siberian Platform), Pseudanomocarina Zone.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Middle Cambrian
Beginning International Stage:
Cambrian Stage 4
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
512.3
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Middle Cambrian
Ending International Stage:
Guzhangian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
0
Ending Date:
498.75
Description
Small, strongly convex, en grande tenue or with anterior glabellar lobe, median preglabellar furrow, and median postaxial furrow effaced, nonscrobiculate, nonspinose or with short cephalic spines. Posterior glabellar lobe very strongly convex, subhexagonal or subcircular, lateral glabellar furrows absent, basal lobes elongate, entire. Thorax nonspinose. Pygidial axis usually short, with very strongly inflated M2 and posterior lobe.
References
CPC