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Gondwanaspis
Taxonomy
Gondwanaspis was named by Feist (2002). It is not extant.
It was synonymized subjectively with Taemasaspis by Jell and Adrain (2002).
It was assigned to Acidaspidinae by Feist (2002) and Feist and McNamara (2007).
It was synonymized subjectively with Taemasaspis by Jell and Adrain (2002).
It was assigned to Acidaspidinae by Feist (2002) and Feist and McNamara (2007).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 2002 | Gondwanaspis Feist p. 204 |
| 2007 | Gondwanaspis Feist and McNamara p. 379 |
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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.
G. †Gondwanaspis Feist 2002
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†Gondwanaspis dracula Feist and McNamara 2007
†Gondwanaspis harborti Richter and Richter 1926
†Gondwanaspis mrirtensis Feist 2002
†Gondwanaspis prisca Feist and McNamara 2007
†Gondwanaspis spinosa Feist and McNamara 2007
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| R. Feist 2002 | Cephalon with glabellar lobes not inflated, rect− angular central lobe; straight ocular ridges; no sutural ridges; eye shifted in midst of genal field; no occipital spines; straight, outward directed librigenal spine, exceeding length of glabella; spines along the entire anterior and antero−lateral margins. | |
| R. Feist and K. J. McNamara 2007 | Cephalon of low convexity, with downward flexed anterior border; glabellar lobes often weakly inflated; L3 very small or absent; rectangular central lobe; relatively deep, wide (sag.) preglabellar furrow; almost straight eye ridges with large angle of convergence; sutural ridges weakly developed or absent; eye located in centre of wide genal field; genal angle advanced; straight, outward directed librigenal spine; margin of librigenae with 12 long, straight spines; up to four pointed protuberances or exsagittally directed spines on anterior border of cranidium; no occipital spines. Hypostome subquadrangular, with anteriorly narrowing central lobe. Pygidium wide and short, with long, divergent major pair of border spines; axis relatively narrow. |