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Wutingaspis

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Redlichiida
    Superfamily:  
Redlichioidea
    Family:  
Redlichiidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Wutingaspis KOBAYASHI, 1944c, p. 130
    Type Species:  
W. tingi, OD, holotype (KOBAYASHI, 1944c, pl. 10, fig. 7), Y338, UMUT, Tokyo


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Fig. 281,2. *W. tingi, eastern Yunnan (Wuting); holotype, cranidium, × 2 (Kobayashi, 1944c).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

China (eastern Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, southern Shaanxi), EoredlichiaWutingaspis Zone.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Cambrian (“Lower Cambrian” in Trilobite volume of Treatise = current Cambrian Epoch 2 of international scale) (Qiongzhusian)
    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) (Qiongzhusian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 3
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
0
    Ending Date:  
517.75


Description

relatively short eye lobe, broad cylindroconical glabella, longer (exs.) and broader posterior area of fixigena, slightly arcuate and more divergent facial lines, no thoracic axial spine




References



Museum or Author Information

Kobayashi, 1944