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Odontopleura

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Odontopleurida
    Superfamily:  
Dalmanitacea
    Family:  
Odontopleuridae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Odontopleura EMRICH, 1839
    Type Species:  
O. ovata


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Fig. 398, 1. *O. ovata, Boh., exoskel. (reconstr.), x1 (496*)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Eu.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Sil.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Sheinwoodian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
432.93
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Sil.
    Ending International Stage:  
Homerian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
426.74


Description

Glabella with relatively large lateral lobes, median part of occipital ring elevated and produced into long pair of occipital spines, also with faint occi- pital lobes, small eye lobes situated opposite basal glabellar furrows, angle between anterior and posterior sections of facial sutures 120 degrees, slender librigenal and posterior pleural spines, long anterior pleural spines, Pygidium relatively wide, posterior part with long horizontal pair of major border spines




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