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Radnoria guyi

Trilobita - Proetida - Brachymetopidae

Taxonomy
Radnoria guyi was named by Pereira et al. (2015) [= Radnoria aff. simplex; Pereira et al. 2014 p. 46, fig. 1.]. Its type specimen is MGUTAD 15050a-b, a skeleton (Internal and external moulds of a nearly complete dorsal exoskeleton), and it is a mold. Its type locality is outcrop located on the road from Mação to Aboboreira, near Pereiro village, which is in a Berounian marine mudstone in the Cabeço do Peão Formation of Portugal.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2015Radnoria guyi Pereira et al. fig. 3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderProetidaFortey and Owens 1975
superfamilyAulacopleuroidea(Angelin 1854)
familyBrachymetopidaePrantl and Pribyl 1951
subfamilyBrachymetopinaePrantl and Pribyl 1950
genusRadnoriaWasmann 1894
speciesguyi

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Radnoria guyi Pereira et al. 2015
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
S. Pereira et al. 2015Radnoria with anterior and posterior branches of facial suture diverging at about 60° and 45° respectively to the sagittal line; length of palpebral lobes about one third of the sagittal length of the glabella; glabella and genal field with strong reticulate sculpture of fine ridges; pygidium with eight axial rings and a terminal piece; axial rings bearing prominent median tubercles; axis occupying about 75% sagittal length of pygidium; pleural region with six backwardly curved pleural furrows.