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Rhodotypiscus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Agnostida
    Superfamily:  
Agnostoidea
    Family:  
Spinagnostidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Rhodotypiscus ÖРІК, 1979, p. 79
    Type Species:  
* R. nasonis, OD, holotype (ÖРІК, 1979, pl. 16, fig. 1), СРС 14072, AGSO, Canberra


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Fossil Image
Fig. 228,3. *R. nasonis, Middle Cambrian (Floran, Euagnostus opimus Zone), Australia (Camooweal area, western Queensland); holotype, exoskeleton, CPC 14072, ×8 (new).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Canada (Quebec); Australia (Queensland), E. opimus Zone; USA (Utah), T. gibbus to lower P. punctuosus Zones, (Alaska), Middle Cambrian; ?Russia (Siberia), T. fissus Zone; China (Xinjiang), G. nathorsti or P. punctuosus Zone.


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

Median preglabellar furrow usually weakly developed or absent, Glabella with semiovate anterior lobe, F3 straight, posterior lobe with well-developed F2 furrows, glabellar culmination strongly inflated, glabellar node level with or a short distance in front of F1 furrow, Pygidium bispinose, axis elongate ogival, acuminate posteriorly, posterior lobe ogival, commonly with welldeveloped transverse depression, median postaxial furrow present




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