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Neopagetina

Classification

    Phylum:  
Arthropoda
    Class:  
Trilobita
    Order:  
Agnostida
    Superfamily:  
Eodiscoidea
    Family:  
Hebediscidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Neopagetina Pokrovskaya, 1960, p. 56, nom. nov. pro Pagetina Lermontova, 1940, p. 121, non BARNARD, 2009 University of Kansas Paleontological Institute 1931
    Type Species:  
Pagetina rjonsnitzkii Lermontova, 1940, p. 121, OD, holotype (LERMONTOVA, 1951a, pl. 3, fig. 7a), 34 / 5156, TsGM, St. Petersburg


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Fig. 244,2a,b. *N. rjonsnitzkii, Botomian, Kutorgina Formation, Siberia (Peleduy River); a, lectotype, cranidium, ×12; b, pygidium, ×7 (Lermontova, 1940).


Synonyms

Pagetina


Geographic Distribution

Russia (Siberian Platform, Mt. Altay), Mongolia, Greenland.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Cambrian (“Lower Cambrian” in Trilobite volume of Treatise = current Cambrian Epoch 2 of international scale) (Botomian, Toyonian)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 3
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
75
    Beginning Date:  
516.13
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Cambrian (“Lower Cambrian” in Trilobite volume of Treatise = current Cambrian Epoch 2 of international scale) (Botomian, Toyonian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 4
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
75
    Ending Date:  
510.38


Description

Glabella tapering forward to rounded anterior, preglabellar median furrow short, wide, depressed, anterior border extremely short, smooth, may be medially elongate, eye ridge anteriorly convex, librigena extremely short, LO simple, may have short occipital spine. Pygidial axis of six rings plus terminus, not reaching border furrow, pleural field with well-impressed pleural furrows, border narrow, smooth.




References

Lermontova, 1940


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