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Yiliangellina

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Redlichiida
    Superfamily:  
Redlichioidea
    Family:  
Gigantopygidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Yiliangellina W. CHANG, 1966, p. 162, 170
    Type Species:  
Y. formosa, OD, holotype (W. Chang, 1966, pl. 6, fig. 4), 18187, NIGP, Nanjing


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Fossil Image
Fig. 290,1. *Y. formosa, eastern Yunnan (Yiliang); holotype, cranidium, thorax, and pygidium, × 6 (W. Chang, 1966).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

China (eastern Yunnan), Drepanuroides Zone.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Cambrian (“Lower Cambrian” in Trilobite volume of Treatise = current Cambrian Epoch 2 of international scale) (lower Canglangpuan)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 3
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
517.75
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Cambrian (“Lower Cambrian” in Trilobite volume of Treatise = current Cambrian Epoch 2 of international scale) (lower Canglangpuan)
    Ending International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 3
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
0
    Ending Date:  
515.61


Description

broad, smooth glabella, long (sag.), slightly depressed preglabellar field, a longer eye lobe, shorter (exs.) posterior area of fixigena




References



Museum or Author Information

S. Li, Kang, & Zhang, 1990, S. Li, Kang, & Zhang, 1990