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Taxonomy
Palpebralina ocellifer was named by Feist and McNamara (2013). Its type specimen is WAM 11.123, a cephalon/head, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Locality 05. Windy Knolls, Bugle Gap, 1 km south of Waggon Pass, which is in a Frasnian perireef or subreef limestone in the Virgin Hills Formation of Australia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2013 | Palpebralina ocellifer Feist and McNamara pp. 243-244 figs. 3V-AB |
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†Palpebralina ocellifer Feist and McNamara 2013
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. Feist and K. J. McNamara 2013 | Cephalon with wide palpebral lobes and short posterior fixigenae, laterally protruding eye lobes of mod- erate height, inflated subocular areas, dense tuberculation; pygidium markedly arched in posterior view, with low axis of moderate length. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, o = order, c = class | |||||
| References: Fortey and Owens 1999, Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Frasnian or 375.20000 to 372.15000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Frasnian | Australia (Western Australia) | Palpebralina ocellifer (type locality: 216427) |