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Taxonomy
Mirabolinae was named by Yuan and Xiang (1998).
It was assigned to Phillipsiidae by Yuan and Xiang (1998); and to Proetidae by Feist et al. (2000), Gandl et al. (2015), Bault et al. (2022), Brezinski (2025).
It was assigned to Phillipsiidae by Yuan and Xiang (1998); and to Proetidae by Feist et al. (2000), Gandl et al. (2015), Bault et al. (2022), Brezinski (2025).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1998 | Mirabolinae Yuan and Xiang p. 182 |
| 2000 | Mirabolinae Feist et al. p. 522 |
| 2015 | Mirabolinae Gandl et al. p. 52 |
| 2022 | Mirabolinae Bault et al. pp. 104035-3 |
| 2025 | Mirabolinae Brezinski p. 143 |
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Subfm. †Mirabolinae Yuan and Xiang 1998
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G. †Mirabole Osmólska 1962
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Subg. †Mirabole (Mirabole) Osmólska 1962
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†Mirabole (Mirabole) crassa Chlupáč 1966
†Mirabole (Mirabole) crassa xiakouensis Yuan and Xiang 1998
†Mirabole (Mirabole) muhuaensis Yuan 1988
†Mirabole (Mirabole) sortitus Chlupáč 1966
†Mirabole (Mirabole) kielanae debita Chlupac 1966
†Mirabole kielanae Osmólska 1962
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. Yuan and L.-W. Xiang 1998 | A new subfamily of Phillipsiidae (Oehlert,1886), Hahn, Hahn and Brauckmann, 1980 with the following features: Cranidium gently vaulted, subtrapezoidal in outline; glabella hardly upraised above cheek area, truncated conical to subcylindrical in outline, with 3-4 pairs of obsolete glabellar furrows; occipital furrow distinct medially, shallowing laterally, isolating from the dorsal furrows, with faint lateral branches; occipital ring with or without inconspicuous to distinct occipital solution; anterior border broad (sag.) and flat; palpebral lobe moderately long and narrow (tr.) to rudimentary, fairly distant from glabella; eye ridges distinct in meraspid period, rudimentary in adults; facial suture from fJ to () nearly straight , slanting backwards, r a n d E. far from dorsal furrows; eye medium in size to absent; free cheek with or without genal spine; thorax with 7 segments; pygidium gently vaulted, with suppressed relief of axial rings and pleural ribs in adults; pygidial border well differentiated with 7-8 pairs of marginal spines in meraspid period. |
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| References: Hendy 2009, Fortey and Owens 1999, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Famennian to the top of the Tournaisian or 365.20000 to 346.70000 Ma
Collections (25 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Famennian | China (Guangxi) | Mirabole crassa (229268) | |
| Late/Upper Famennian | China (Guizhou) | Mirabole kielanae (218959 218960 218961 218962 218963 218964 218965 218966 234698) Mirabole muhuaensis (218956 218957 218958 234697) | |
| Late/Upper Famennian | Germany (Sauerland) | Struveproetus n. sp. A, Struveproetus ocellatus (172534) | |
| Late/Upper Famennian | Germany | Struveproetus ocellatus (229402) | |
| Late/Upper Famennian | China (Guangxi) | Mirabole crassa (222336 222337 222338) Mirabole sp. (12500 12504) Mirabole xiakouensis (234700) | |
| Late/Upper Famennian | Czechia | Mirabole kielanae, Cyrtosymbole debita, Mirabole sortita (218975) Mirabole kielanae, Mirabole debita (234673) | |
| Tournaisian | Poland (Northern Kielce) | Cyrtosymbole kielanae (217187) |