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Wuhuia
Classification
Phylum:
Unknown
Class:
Trilobata
Order:
Ptychopariida
Superfamily:
Ptychaspidacea
Family:
Ptychaspididae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Wuhuia KOBAYASHI, 1933
Type Species:
Wuhuia belus (WALCOTT, 1905)
Images
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Fig. 238, 3. *W. belus (Walcorr), China(Shantung), 3 a, b, cran., x3, 3 c, d, pyg., x3 (419).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
E.Asia
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Upper Cambrian(Fengshan.)
Beginning International Stage:
Jiangshanian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
87.5
Beginning Date:
491.4
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Upper Cambrian(Fengshan.)
Ending International Stage:
Cambrian Stage 10
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
486.85
Description
Glabella parallel-sided, tapering, front broadly rounded, with 2 pairs of short, distinct, arcuate lateral furrows, anterior border furrow narrow, curved, eye ridges obsolete, eyes of medium size, opposite center of glabella, fixigenae horizontal, with palpebral areas 0.3 of glabellar width, posterior areas straplike, medium in width (tr.). Pygidium semicircular, 4 axial rings and terminal, 5 pleurae with pleural furrows, border furrow obsolete, border narrow, illdefined. Surface granulose. Upper Cambrian(Fengshan.), E.Asia.
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Unknown
Class:
Trilobata
Order:
Ptychopariida
Superfamily:
Ptychaspidacea
Family:
Ptychaspididae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Wuhuia KOBAYASHI, 1933
Type Species:
Wuhuia belus (WALCOTT, 1905)
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 238, 3. *W. belus (Walcorr), China(Shantung), 3 a, b, cran., x3, 3 c, d, pyg., x3 (419).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
E.Asia
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Upper Cambrian(Fengshan.)
Beginning International Stage:
Jiangshanian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
87.5
Beginning Date:
491.4
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Upper Cambrian(Fengshan.)
Ending International Stage:
Cambrian Stage 10
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
486.85
Description
Glabella parallel-sided, tapering, front broadly rounded, with 2 pairs of short, distinct, arcuate lateral furrows, anterior border furrow narrow, curved, eye ridges obsolete, eyes of medium size, opposite center of glabella, fixigenae horizontal, with palpebral areas 0.3 of glabellar width, posterior areas straplike, medium in width (tr.). Pygidium semicircular, 4 axial rings and terminal, 5 pleurae with pleural furrows, border furrow obsolete, border narrow, illdefined. Surface granulose. Upper Cambrian(Fengshan.), E.Asia.