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Taitzuia

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Ptychopariida
    Superfamily:  
Marjumiacea
    Family:  
Pagodiidea
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Taitzuia Resser & ENDO, 1937
    Type Species:  
T. insueta


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Fig. 231, 7. *T. insueta, Manch., 7a, b, cran., x3 (37)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

NE.Asia


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Cam.(Taitzuian)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Paibian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
494.95
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Cam.(Taitzuian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Jiangshanian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
0
    Ending Date:  
491.4


Description

Glabella parallel-sided, front nearly straight, without lateral furrows, palpebral furrows and eye ridges present, eyes of medium size, fixigenae horizontal, with palpebral areas less than 0.5 of glabellar width, posterior areas unknown. Librigenae and pygidium unknown.It was originally assigned to a Taitzuian regional stage that was considered by Kobayashi (1935, etc.) to be Middle Cambrian in Korea; but later work (give citation) has placed these into the Changshanian regional stage of Upper Cambrian (used here).




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