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Eccoptochile scuticauda
Taxonomy
Cheirurus scuticauda was named by Barrande (1846). Its type specimen is NM, L 15726 and is a 3D body fossil.
It was recombined as Eccoptochile (Eccoptochiloides) scuticauda by Prantl and Pribyl (1947); it was recombined as Eccoptochiloides scuticauda by Pribyl and Vanek (1984); it was recombined as Eccoptochile scuticauda by Gapp et al. (2012).
It was recombined as Eccoptochile (Eccoptochiloides) scuticauda by Prantl and Pribyl (1947); it was recombined as Eccoptochiloides scuticauda by Pribyl and Vanek (1984); it was recombined as Eccoptochile scuticauda by Gapp et al. (2012).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1846 | Cheirurus scuticauda Barrande p. 4 |
| 1947 | Eccoptochile (Eccoptochiloides) scuticauda Prantl and Pribyl figs. pl. 6 f. 3 |
| 1984 | Eccoptochiloides scuticauda Pribyl and Vanek pp. 125 - 126 figs. 3, 7 |
| 2012 | Eccoptochile scuticauda Gapp et al. pp. Table 1 |
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†Eccoptochile scuticauda Barrande 1846
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| Pribyl and Vanek 1984 | Cephalon semicircular, moderately convex, with strongly raised pear-shaped glabella with three pairs glabellar furrows reaching about 1/4 of the total width of the glabella and running more or less obliquely arcuately backwards. Fixed cheeks subtriangular; free cheeks very narrow. Palpebral lobes slightly marked. Anterior branch of the facial suture sigmoidally curved, very close to axial furrows opposite the widest part of the frontal lobe; posterior branch from posterior of palpebral lobe running slightly obliquely backwards in almost a straight line to half-way across lateral border. Eye crescentic, situated nearer glabella than lateral margin. Cephalon with a characteristic border, which distinctly widens towards genal angles and runs out in a strongly genal spine reaches to the third or fourth thoracic segment. Thorax of 10 segments. Pygidium semicircular, eight-lobate, with a convex axis composed of 3 (+ 1) rings. Pygidial pleurae running out in bluntly lobate enlarged spines. The interior pair of spines is slightly reduced. |
Measurements
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Vinice to the top of the Late/Upper Ordovician or 459.30000 to 443.10000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vinice - Late/Upper Ordovician | Czechia | Eccoptochile scuticauda (3863) |