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Nyella plana
Taxonomy
Nyella plana was named by Sundberg and McCollum (2003). Its type specimen is USNM 510013, a cephalon/head (nearly complete cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 2003 | Nyella plana Sundberg and McCollum p. 349 figs. Figure 15.1-15.13 |
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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.
†Nyella plana Sundberg and McCollum 2003
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| F. A. Sundberg and L.B. McCollum 2003 | ranidium with anterior border moderately wide (width 63 ::!::4 percent cranidial width), moderately long, mod- erate curved, not arched dorsally, and moderately convex; ocular ridges slightly posterolaterally directed; fixigena moderately wide (width 66 ::!::6 percent glabellar width); palpebral lobes moder- ately long (length 40 ::!::3 percent glabellar length). Pygidium wide (length 29 ::!::3 percent width). |
Measurements
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| References: Hendy 2009, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||