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Taxonomy
Ganetops was named by Bignon et al. (2014). Its type is Asteropyge (Asteropyge) ebbae.
It was assigned to Asteropyginae by Bignon et al. (2014).
It was assigned to Asteropyginae by Bignon et al. (2014).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2014 | Ganetops Bignon et al. p. 285 |
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G. †Ganetops Bignon et al. 2014
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†Ganetops djemelensis Morzadec 1997
†Ganetops ebbae Richter and Richter 1954
†Ganetops gerrinensis Timm 1978
†Ganetops lata Timm 1978
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. Bignon et al. 2014 | Frontal lobe diamond-shaped; axial furrows straight between S1 and S3, no contact between S2 and axial furrows; 7–8 lenses per row on visual surface; genal spine very much shorter than glabella, with narrow proximal portion; narrow anterior and lateral border, developed on genal spine. Pygidium with anterior pleural bands as wide and elevated as posterior bands, flat pleural bands; axis with 8–9 rings; 5 pleural segments; 5 pairs of pygidial spines strongly shorter than pleural width (tr.), mainly developed from posterior pleural bands; terminal pygidial spine, triangular, more than twice longer than other pygidial spines. |
Measurements
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| References: Fortey and Owens 1999, Whittington et al. 1997, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: Gedinnine or 416.00000 to 412.30000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Lochkovian | Morocco | Treveropyge ebbae (13936) | |
| Lochkovian | Poland | Treveropyge ebbae (13878) | |
| Lochkovian | Ukraine | Treveropyge ebbae (23362) | |
| Gedinnine | Spain (León) | Treveropyge ebbae (234796) |