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Odontochile

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Phacopida
    Superfamily:  
Dalmanitacea
    Family:  
Dalmanitidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Odontochile Hawle & Corda, 1847
    Type Species:  
Asaphus hatismanni Brongniart, 1822, SD Tripp & Whit- TARD, 1956 (ICZN pend.)


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Fossil Image
Fig. 371, 2. *O. hausmanni (Brongniart), M.Dev., Czech., 2 a, b, exoskel., hypostoma, x1 (3).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Eu.-N.Am.-S.Am.-Austral.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Dev.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Lochkovian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
419
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M. Dev.
    Ending International Stage:  
Givetian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
378.9


Description

Cephalon resembling that of Dalmanites, but anterior sections of facial sutures distant from glabellar frontal lobe, Hypostoma with 5 to 7 denticles along posterior edge, Pygidium very long, with 16 to 22 rings and 12 to 15 pairs of ribs, doublure broad




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