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Kawina divergens
Taxonomy
Kawina divergens was named by Reed (1945) [= Pliomera aff. fischeri (Eichwald); Reed in Gardiner & Reynolds 1909: 144; pl. 6, fig. 4.
= Kawina sp., Raymond 1925: 144.]. Its type specimen is SM A10396, a pygidium, and it is a 3D body fossil.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1945 | Kawina divergens Reed p. 59 |
| 1971 | Kawina divergens Lane p. 56 figs. text-fig. 9a |
| 1997 | Kawina divergens Adrain and Fortey pp. 92 - 95 figs. pl. 6, figs 13-16; PI. 7, figs 1-5, 7 |
| 2011 | Kawina divergens Congreve and Lieberman pp. Table S1 |
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†Kawina divergens Reed 1945
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| J. M. Adrain and R. A. Fortey 1997 | Dorsal sculpture of very tine, densely spaced granules; short, thorn-like genal spine retained in large holaspides; glabella with nearly even sagittal convexity, point of maximum convexity anterior; pygidium wide, with splayed, subquadrate ribs bearing free tips. |