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Dorypyge swasii

Artiopoda - Corynexochida - Dorypygidae

Taxonomy

Dorypyge swasii was named by Sundberg (1994). Its type specimen is LACMIP 11683, a pygidium, and it is a 3D body fossil.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

D. australis, D. damesi, D. damia, D. denekensis, D. khademi, D. olenekensis, D. rushtonensis, D. tenella, D. terneki, D. wellsvillensis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1994	Dorypyge swasii Sundberg pp. 17 - 19 figs. Figure 13

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
class	Artiopoda	Hou and Bergstrom

Rank	Name	Author
class	Trilobita	Walch 1771
order	Corynexochida
suborder	Corynexochina	Kobayashi 1935
family	Dorypygidae	Kobayashi 1935
subfamily	Dorypyginae	Kobayashi 1935
genus	Dorypyge	Dames 1883
species	swasii

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Dorypyge swasii Sundberg 1994

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Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
F. A. Sundberg 1994	Dorypyge with pygidium having 5 pairs of spines, anterior 4 pairs of lateral spines increasing in length from anterior to posterior, pos- terior pair of spines very short, 4 axial rings, borderincreasing in width posteriorly. Cranidium smooth, glabella with slightly divergent, slightly concave to straight axial furrows; frontal lobe slightly smaller than greatest glabellar width.