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Nasocephalus nasutus
Taxonomy
Nasocephalus nasutus was named by Wilson (1954). It is not extant. Its type specimen is CW-257, a cephalon/head (cranidium). It is the type species of Nasocephalus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1954 | Nasocephalus nasutus Wilson p. 269 figs. pl. 24 f. 11, 14, 18-19, 21 |
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†Nasocephalus nasutus Wilson 1954
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| J.L. Wilson 1954 | The size range of the specimens (all from a single boulder) is from 5 to 10 mm. long. Almost half the cranidial length is formed by the border which is prolonged into a convex blunt spine. This is counter-balanced by a large thick occipital spine of about equal size although this is broken off all but one specimen. The test is finely tuberculate. The free cheek possesses a triangular ocular platform, steeply depressed laterally, a wellmarked marginal furrow and a relatively wide, moderately convex border. Presumably the anterior facial suture cuts the margin of the cranidium a t some place along the side of the cranidial spine. |