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Neocobboldia

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Agnostida
    Superfamily:  
Eodiscoidea
    Family:  
Calodiscidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Neocobboldia Rasetti, 1952a, p. 438, nom. nov. pro Cobboldia Lermontova, 1940, p. 120, non Brauer, 1887, nec LEIPER, 1910
    Type Species:  
Cobboldia dentata Lermontova, 1940, p. 120, OD, holotype (LERMONTOVA, 1951a, pl. 3, fig. 2) 23/5156, TsGM, St. Petersburg


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Fossil Image
Fig. 245,2a–c. *N. dentata, Lower Cambrian (Protolenus Zone), Siberia (Lena River, Yakutia); a, holotype, cranidium, ×6.5; b,c, thorax and pygidium, ×6.5 (Lermontova, 1951a).


Synonyms

Margodiscus


Geographic Distribution

Russia (Siberian Platform, Gorno-Altayskaya), Mongolia


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Cambrian (“Lower Cambrian” in Trilobite volume of Treatise = current Cambrian Epoch 2 of international scale) (Botomian)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 3
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
523
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Cambrian (“Lower Cambrian” in Trilobite volume of Treatise = current Cambrian Epoch 2 of international scale) (Botomian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 4
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
0
    Ending Date:  
513.13


Description

Glabella parallel sided, anteriorly rounded at border furrow, unfurrowed except for well-impressed, transverse SO, fixigenae narrow, separated anteriorly by short, depressed median preglabellar field, border furrow usually longer than border, anterior border short, convex, tapering only slightly laterally, palpebral furrow slitlike, exsagittal, short. Pygidium transverse, axis wide, of 3 or 4 rings plus terminus, finishing at border furrow, pleural areas usually with well-impressed pleural furrows, border narrow, denticulate.




References



Museum or Author Information

Lermontova, 1951