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lacks eyes and facial sutures. The cephalic border carries one or two pairs of marginal spines. The glabella does not reach the border furrow and has two short pit-like pairs of lateral furrows. Occipital and genal spines are present. Thorax unknown, but all weymouthiids in which it is known have
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Rasetti (1966, p. 13, pl. 7, figs 1–6) is part of a trilobite faunule that was collected from unnamed limestone beds which form several outcrops on a hill (Griswold farm) about 1 mile southeast of North Chatham, Columbia County, New York State, USA; the faunule is referred to as the
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but slightly”, although several of the characteristics in the former genus that he listed, include the preoccipital glabellar and anterolateral cephalic spines, and the configuration of the lateral glabellar furrows.
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include a sharply tapered and pointed glabella, no occipital spine, tubercles confined to posterior part of the cephalic border, strongly inflated genae, and a sculpture of tightly packed coarse granules.
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is characterised by an inflated posterior part of the glabella, the loss of anterolateral cephalic spines and a preoccipital glabellar node, and in having a very narrow cephalic border.
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WESTROP, S. R.; LANDING, E. (2011). "Lower Cambrian (Branchian) eodiscoid trilobites from the lower Brigus Formation, Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada".
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include anterolateral cephalic spines and a large preoccipital glabellar tubercle or spine. Both of these features have been considered as being diagnostic of
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KOBAYASHI T. 1943. Brief notes on the Eodiscids 1, their classification with a description of a new species and a new variety.
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is known from the Lower Cambrian of the United States (unnamed formation, East Chatham Quad, Columbia County, New York State
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hexa "six" and acanthos "spine", for having two pairs of border spines in addition to one pair of genal spines.
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RASETTI, F., 1966. New Lower Cambrian trilobite faunule from the Taconic sequence of New York.
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Biozone) at Camp Hill, St. Paul's Church, Stockingford, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England .
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RUSHTON, A.W.A. 1966. The Cambrian Trilobites from the Purley Shales of Warwickshire.
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faunule is notable for the number and variety of trilobites of the family Eodiscidae.
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A cladogram showing the relationship between several species of the genera
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Rasetti, 1966, is a genus of Eodiscinid trilobite belonging to the family
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Kobayashi T. (1943), Order Agnostida Salter (1864). It lived during the
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faunule from one of the most common and characteristic trilobites. The
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Among genera currently assigned to Weymouthiidae Kobayashi, 1943 (Jell
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Scientific classification
Animalia
Arthropoda
Trilobita
Agnostida
Eodiscina
Eodiscoidea
Weymouthiidae
Rasetti
Type species
species
Weymouthiidae
Botomian stage
Miaolingian
Wuliuan
holotype
Greek

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