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Phalacroma

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Agnostida
    Superfamily:  
Uncertain
    Family:  
Phalacromidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Phalacroma Hawle & CORDA, 1847, p. 43
    Type Species:  
* Battus bibullatus Barrande, 1846, p. 14, SD Raymond, 1913a, p. 139, lectotype (BarRande, 1852, pl. 49, fig. 6, SD ŠNAJDR, 1958, p. 74), ČC 244, NMP, Prague


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Fig. 240,1. *P. bibullatum (BARRANDE); Middle Cambrian (E. pusillus Zone), Czech Republic (Tyrovice, Bohemia); lectotype, exoskeleton, NM-CC 244, No. 1027, × 8.7 (Horny & Bastl, 1970, pl. 1, fig. 1).


Synonyms

Platagnostus


Geographic Distribution

Czech Republic, Eccaparadoxides pusillus Zone; France, Paradoxides beds; Russia (Siberia), T. fissus or P. hicksi to upper P. davidis Zones.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Middle Cambrian
    Beginning International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 4
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
512.3
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Middle Cambrian
    Ending International Stage:  
Guzhangian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
0
    Ending Date:  
498.75


Description

Cephalon almost totally effaced, having barely perceptible border and axial furrows that are defined only posteriorly, basal lobes effaced. Pygidium with very wide (tr.) axis extending to narrow (sag.) posterior border, nonspinose.




References

Hawle, Ignaz, \& A. J. C. Corda. 1847. Prodrom einer Monographie der böhmischen Trilobiten. Abhandlungen Koeniglichen Boehmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften. J. G. Calve. Prague. 176 p., 7 pl .


Museum or Author Information

NM, Horný & Bastl, 1970