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Gondwanaspis spinosa
Taxonomy
Gondwanaspis spinosa was named by Feist and McNamara (2007). Its type specimen is WAM 07.94, a cephalon/head, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is East side of McWhae Ridge, Lawford Range, Canning Basin, which is in a Frasnian perireef or subreef limestone in the Virgin Hills Formation of Australia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 2007 | Gondwanaspis spinosa Feist and McNamara pp. 788 - 789 fig. 4a–g |
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†Gondwanaspis spinosa Feist and McNamara 2007
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. Feist and K. J. McNamara 2007 | Cephalon with almost transverse anterior margin; eye lobes anterolaterally positioned; eye ridges long, thin, straight, widely divergent; glabellar lobes reasonably well defined; small L3 present, four long spines on anterior margin of cranidium; sparse secondary tubercles set in groundmass of very small, granular tubercles. Pygidium very wide; with long, slender, divergent major border spines and axis equal in width to pleural field. |
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Frasnian or 375.20000 to 372.15000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frasnian | Australia (Western Australia) | Gondwanaspis spinosa (type locality: 214754) | |
| Late/Upper Frasnian | Australia (Western Australia) | Gondwanaspis spinosa (214755 214756) |