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Yuepingia
Classification
Phylum:
Unknown
Class:
Trilobata
Order:
Ptychopariida
Superfamily:
Uncertain
Family:
Asaphidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Yuepingia LU, 1956
Type Species:
Y. niobiformis
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Synonyms
Yüpengia
Geographic Distribution
SW.China
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Upper Cambrian
Beginning International Stage:
Guzhangian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
50
Beginning Date:
498.75
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Upper Cambrian
Ending International Stage:
Cambrian Stage 10
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
486.85
Description
Like Niobella but with larger eyes and with genal spines. Only cranidia, librigenae, and pygidia known.
References
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Classification
Phylum:
Unknown
Class:
Trilobata
Order:
Ptychopariida
Superfamily:
Uncertain
Family:
Asaphidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Yuepingia LU, 1956
Type Species:
Y. niobiformis
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)Synonyms
Yüpengia
Geographic Distribution
SW.China
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Upper Cambrian
Beginning International Stage:
Guzhangian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
50
Beginning Date:
498.75
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Upper Cambrian
Ending International Stage:
Cambrian Stage 10
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
486.85
Description
Like Niobella but with larger eyes and with genal spines. Only cranidia, librigenae, and pygidia known.