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Sajanaspis

Classification

    Phylum:  
Arthropoda
    Class:  
Trilobita
    Order:  
Redlichiida
    Superfamily:  
Redlichioidea
    Family:  
Redlichinidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Sajanaspis REPINA, 1960a, p. 196
    Type Species:  
S. pokrovskayae, OD, holotype (REPINA, 1960, pl. 11, fig. 1), 3548/ 46, CSGM, Novosibirsk


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Fossil Image
Fig. 300,6. * S. pokrovskayae, eastern and western Sayan mountains, holotype, cranidium, X 5 (Repina, 1960).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Russia (eastern and western Sayan, Altay, Gornaja Shoria, Tuva, Kuznetsk Alatau), Atdabanian (Sajanaspis Zone); western Mongolia, Tologoja subquadrata-Sajanaspis modesta Zone; northern Mongolia, Tologoja subquadrata-Margodiscus rackovskii-Sajanaspis Zone.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Cambrian (“Lower Cambrian” in Trilobite volume of Treatise = current Cambrian Epoch 2 of international scale)
    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)
    Ending International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 4
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
509


Description

Anterior area of fixigena narrow (tr.), anterior border short (sag. and exs.), eye lobe long (exs.) and arcuate, posterior areas of fixigena very broad (tr.) and long (exs.), librigena with narrow border and short genal spine. Thorax with 15 segments. Pygidium small, with broad (tr.) axial lobe and broad pleural regions.




References



Museum or Author Information

Repina, 1960