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Dorypyge swasii
Taxonomy
Dorypyge swasii was named by Sundberg (1994). Its type specimen is LACMIP 11683, a pygidium, and it is a 3D body fossil.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1994 | Dorypyge swasii Sundberg pp. 17 - 19 figs. Figure 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.
†Dorypyge swasii Sundberg 1994
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| F. A. Sundberg 1994 | Dorypyge with pygidium having 5 pairs of spines, anterior 4 pairs of lateral spines increasing in length from anterior to posterior, pos- terior pair of spines very short, 4 axial rings, borderincreasing in width posteriorly. Cranidium smooth, glabella with slightly divergent, slightly concave to straight axial furrows; frontal lobe slightly smaller than greatest glabellar width. |
Measurements
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Whittington et al. 1997, Hendy 2009 | |||||
Age range: Delamaran or 509.70000 to 505.30000 Ma
Collections (8 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Delamaran | USA (Utah) | Dorypyge swasii (134059 134060 134061 134062 134063 134064 134065) | |
| Delamaran - Marjumian | USA (Nevada) | Dorypyge swasii (225257) |