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Pseudokainella

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Ptychopariida
    Superfamily:  
Remopleuridacea
    Family:  
Remopleurididae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Pseudokainella HARRINGTON, 1938
    Type Species:  
P. keideli


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Fig. 244. *P. keideli, Tremadoc., S.Am., exoskel., x13.5 (59*)


Synonyms

Parakainella


Geographic Distribution

Arg.-Korea


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Ord.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Tremadocian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
486.85
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Ord.
    Ending International Stage:  
Floian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
471.26


Description

Like Kainella but glabella tapering markedly forward, anterior sections of facial sutures less divergent, preglabellar field shorter (sag.). Thorax of 12 segments, long median axial spine on 8th segment, deep diagonal pleural furrows. Pygidium like that of Apatokephaltes, wider than long, 4 pairs of spinose pleurae, directed diagonally outward and backward




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