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Taxonomy
Cyphoproetus facetus was named by Tripp (1954) [questionably assigned to genus]. Its type specimen is A.3903, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Craighead Quarry, which is in a Caradoc marine mudstone in the Craighead Formation of the United Kingdom.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Cyphoproetus facetus Tripp 1954
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Diagnosis
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| R. M. Owens 1973 | Anterior border not sagittally widened; no preglabellar field; no lateral occipital lobes; lateral margin of cephalon not incurved at base of genal spine; pygidial axis with four or more rings; sculpture of fine striations and sporadic granules. |
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, o = order, c = class | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009, Fortey and Owens 1999 | |||||