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Wuhuia silex

Trilobita - Olenida - Dokimokephalidae

Taxonomy
Wuhuia silex was named by Shergold (1980). Its type specimen is CPC 15289, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a cast. Its type locality is Lily Creek Section K204, which is in an Iverian open shallow subtidal grainstone in the Chatsworth Formation of Australia.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1980Wuhuia silex Shergold p. 47 figs. Pl. 16, fig. 2, 6

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderOlenida
familyDokimokephalidae(Kobayashi 1935)
genusWuhuiaKobayashi 1933
speciessilex

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Wuhuia silex Shergold 1980
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available