Xystridura Temporal range:
Middle Cambrian
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Xystridura templetonensis (Chapman, 1929). Middle Cambrian (early Templetonian), Beetle Creek Formation, Beetle Creek, Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. Length of exoskeleton = 28 mm (sag.) | |
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Paradoxidoidea Hawle & Corda, 1847
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Xystriduridae Whitehouse, 1939
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Genus: | Xystridura Whitehouse, 1936
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Xystridura Whitehouse, 1936 [1] is a genus of Redlichiid trilobite described originally from the Middle Cambrian ( Miaolingian) strata of Queensland, Australia. The genus ranges upwards from Ordian into Florian Stages in terms of Australian Cambrian stratigraphic nomenclature.
Milesia templetonensis Chapman, 1929, p. 214. [2] [synonymized with Bathyuriscus saint-smithi Chapman, 1929, p. 209, by Whitehouse, 1939, p. 199] - see Palmer and Gatehouse (1972, p. D13). [3] Also = X. conspicabilis (Chapman, 1929), X. elegans (Chapman, 1929), X. nitida (Chapman, 1929) and X. olenelloides (Chapman, 1929) [fide Whitehouse (1939), Öpik (1975)], all Middle Cambrian, Queensland (Edgecombe, 2004). [4]
Many other species of Xystridura described by Chapman (1929) and Öpik (1975) were listed by Edgecombe (2004).
Xystridura Temporal range:
Middle Cambrian
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Xystridura templetonensis (Chapman, 1929). Middle Cambrian (early Templetonian), Beetle Creek Formation, Beetle Creek, Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. Length of exoskeleton = 28 mm (sag.) | |
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Paradoxidoidea Hawle & Corda, 1847
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Xystriduridae Whitehouse, 1939
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Genus: | Xystridura Whitehouse, 1936
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Xystridura Whitehouse, 1936 [1] is a genus of Redlichiid trilobite described originally from the Middle Cambrian ( Miaolingian) strata of Queensland, Australia. The genus ranges upwards from Ordian into Florian Stages in terms of Australian Cambrian stratigraphic nomenclature.
Milesia templetonensis Chapman, 1929, p. 214. [2] [synonymized with Bathyuriscus saint-smithi Chapman, 1929, p. 209, by Whitehouse, 1939, p. 199] - see Palmer and Gatehouse (1972, p. D13). [3] Also = X. conspicabilis (Chapman, 1929), X. elegans (Chapman, 1929), X. nitida (Chapman, 1929) and X. olenelloides (Chapman, 1929) [fide Whitehouse (1939), Öpik (1975)], all Middle Cambrian, Queensland (Edgecombe, 2004). [4]
Many other species of Xystridura described by Chapman (1929) and Öpik (1975) were listed by Edgecombe (2004).