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Parakoldinioidia

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Uncertain
    Superfamily:  
Phacopacea
    Family:  
Sarkiidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Parakoldinioidia Endo, in Endo & RESSER, 1937
    Type Species:  
P. typicalis


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Fig. 411, 1. *P. typicalis, Manch., 1a, ceph., X4, 1b, pyg., X1 (37) (LB)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Upper Cambrian(Fengshanian), N.E.Asia


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Upper Cambrian(Fengshanian)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Jiangshanian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
491.4
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Upper Cambrian(Fengshanian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 10
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
0
    Ending Date:  
486.85


Description

Glabella convex, faintly keeled, rectangular, sides diverging very slightly at rounded front, with 3 pairs of short lateral furrows, eye ridges narrow diagonal, palpebral furrows and palpebral rims narrow, no preglabellar field or anterior border furrow, narrow, convex triangular border, eyes below medium size, somewhat behind center of glabella, fixigenae upsloping, with palpebral areas 0.75 of glabellar width, posterior areas short, triangular, librigenae narrow, rectangular, with short genal spine. ?Pygidium semicircular, axis convex, narrower than pleural fields, tapered 0.66 of its length to narrow rounded end, with 4 axial rings and terminal, pleurae 4, crossed by broad pleural furrows, interpleural grooves obsolete, with shallow border furrow and narrow flat border. Outer surface granulose




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