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	Parabadiella
          
            Classification
            
                  Phylum:  
              
                Unknown              
            
            
                  Class:  
              
                Trilobata              
            
            
                  Order:  
              
                Redlichiida              
            
            
                  Superfamily:  
              
                Redlichioidea              
            
            
                  Family:  
              
                Abadiellidae              
            
            
                  Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
              
                Parabadiella W. CHANG, 1966, p. 163, 184              
            
            
                  Type Species:  
              
                * P. huoi, OD, holotype (W. Chang, 1966, pl. 1, fig. 1), 18139, NIGP, Nanjing              
              
            
            Images
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                  Fig. 298,1a,b. *P. huoi, southern Shaanxi (Nanzheng); a, holotype, cranidium, ×2.85 (W. Chang, 1966); b, topotype, exoskeleton, × 2.85 (W. Zhang, Lu, & others, 1980).                
            
            
            Synonyms
            
              
                Parabadiella, Danagouia, Parabadiella (Danagouia)              
            
            
            Geographic Distribution
            
              
                China (northern Sichuan, eastern Yunnan, southern Shaanxi), Parabadiella Zone.              
              
            
            Age Range
            
                  Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
              
                Lower Cambrian (“Lower Cambrian” in Trilobite volume of Treatise = current Cambrian Epoch 2 of international scale) (Qiongzhusian)              
            
            
                  Beginning International Stage:  
              
                Cambrian Stage 3              
            
            
                  Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
              
                0              
            
            
                  Beginning Date:  
              
                521              
            
            
                  Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
              
                Lower Cambrian (“Lower Cambrian” in Trilobite volume of Treatise = current Cambrian Epoch 2 of international scale) (Qiongzhusian)              
            
            
                  Ending International Stage:  
              
                Cambrian Stage 3              
            
            
                  Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
              
                50              
            
            
                  Ending Date:  
              
                517.75              
              
            
            Description
            
              
                Cranidium gently convex, rectangular in outline, broad (tr.), eye lobe medium-sized, eye ridge long and oblique, fixigena broad (tr.), anterior area of fixigena with an oblique and slightly arcuate facial line, median plectrum connected to parafrontal band, which extends obliquely backward and joins anterior band of eye ridge, border furrow distinct, anterior border gently convex and slightly arcuate forward, posterior area of fixigena protruding slightly beyond eye lobe, anterior sections of facial sutures slightly divergent from eye lobe, librigena with long genal spine, thorax with axial spine on the 6th and 9th axial rings, pygidium similar to that of Eoredlichia              
              
            
            
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Classification
                  Phylum:  
              
            
                Unknown              
            
                  Class:  
              
            
                Trilobata              
            
                  Order:  
              
            
                Redlichiida              
            
                  Superfamily:  
              
            
                Redlichioidea              
            
                  Family:  
              
            
                Abadiellidae              
            
                  Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
              
            
                Parabadiella W. CHANG, 1966, p. 163, 184              
            
                  Type Species:  
              
            
            
                * P. huoi, OD, holotype (W. Chang, 1966, pl. 1, fig. 1), 18139, NIGP, Nanjing              
              Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
                  Fig. 298,1a,b. *P. huoi, southern Shaanxi (Nanzheng); a, holotype, cranidium, ×2.85 (W. Chang, 1966); b, topotype, exoskeleton, × 2.85 (W. Zhang, Lu, & others, 1980).                
            Synonyms
                Parabadiella, Danagouia, Parabadiella (Danagouia)              
            Geographic Distribution
                China (northern Sichuan, eastern Yunnan, southern Shaanxi), Parabadiella Zone.              
              Age Range
                  Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
              
            
                Lower Cambrian (“Lower Cambrian” in Trilobite volume of Treatise = current Cambrian Epoch 2 of international scale) (Qiongzhusian)              
            
                  Beginning International Stage:  
              
            
                Cambrian Stage 3              
            
                  Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
              
            
                0              
            
                  Beginning Date:  
              
            
                521              
            
                  Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
              
            
                Lower Cambrian (“Lower Cambrian” in Trilobite volume of Treatise = current Cambrian Epoch 2 of international scale) (Qiongzhusian)              
            
                  Ending International Stage:  
              
            
                Cambrian Stage 3              
            
                  Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
              
            
                50              
            
                  Ending Date:  
              
            
            
                517.75              
              Description
                Cranidium gently convex, rectangular in outline, broad (tr.), eye lobe medium-sized, eye ridge long and oblique, fixigena broad (tr.), anterior area of fixigena with an oblique and slightly arcuate facial line, median plectrum connected to parafrontal band, which extends obliquely backward and joins anterior band of eye ridge, border furrow distinct, anterior border gently convex and slightly arcuate forward, posterior area of fixigena protruding slightly beyond eye lobe, anterior sections of facial sutures slightly divergent from eye lobe, librigena with long genal spine, thorax with axial spine on the 6th and 9th axial rings, pygidium similar to that of Eoredlichia              
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