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Pagetia claytonensis
Taxonomy
Pagetia claytonensis was named by Sundberg (2018). Its type specimen is USNM 643878, a cephalon/head, and it is a 3D body fossil.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2018 | Pagetia claytonensis Sundberg pp. 13 - 16 figs. Figure 9.1 - 9.25 |
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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.
†Pagetia claytonensis Sundberg 2018
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| F. A. Sundberg 2018 | Cranidium relatively wide, length 83 ± 5% width; glabella moderately short (68 ± 2% cranidial length), wide (58 ± 4% cranidial width), anterior glabellar lobe subtriangular in outline, with poorly defined transglabellar furrow; occipital ring spine, short (25 ± 3% glabellar length), evenly tapered; fixigenal width moderately wide (89 ± 12% glabellar width); palpebral lobes narrow, not overhanging lateral border, furrow shallow; eye ridges weakly defined, straight; anterior border wide (44 ± 5% preglabellar area length), convex, outer rim thin; scrobicules slit shaped, prominent, not extending to anterior margin; cranidial border furrow poorly defined anteriorly, median preglabellar furrow well developed, deltoid depression present. Pygidium wide, semiovate (length 70 ± 5% width), abrupt change in direction of the articulating half-rib at the fulcral point; axis narrow, moderately tapering (66 ± 7% anterior width), five axial rings, ring furrows deep, low, moderate nodes on the axial rings, terminal spine thin; a broad furrow separating the half-rib, pleural furrows absent or very weakly developed; broad border furrow defining a narrow border. Exoskeleton smooth. |
Measurements
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy 2009 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available