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- China, Sweden, the Russian Federation, and Kazakhstan. Its headshield and tailshield are almost completely effaced and it has two thorax segments. T. bituberculatus...
- genal spines, 5 thorax segments also ending in stubby genal spines, and a tailshield (pygidium) with a pair of m****ive tusk-like spines, and two smaller spines...
- (or pleurae) are furrowed, and the articulating facets distinct. The tailshield (or pygidium) is always smaller than the headshield (or cephalon), a situation...
- (or palpebral area) is flat. The headshield has a finer sculpture. The tailshield (or pygidium) is weakly furrowed. These characters distinguish it from...
- a small, rather flat trilobite with an oval outline, a headshield and tailshield of approximately the same size, 7 articulating segments in the middle...
- sickle-shaped spines that to the back curve increasingly further backwards. The tailshield (or pygidium) is small. HAWLE, J. & CORDA, A. J. C. 1847. Prodrom einer...
- anterior segment to slightly pointing inwards for the posterior segment. The tailshield (or pygidium) is large, subtriangular, and about two-thirds to three-fourths...
- may have an exta large and wide rib (a state called macropleural). The tailshield (or pygidium) is small but appears to be composed of more than one segment...
- oval or semi-circular headshield (cephalon), and a circular to long oval tailshield (pygidium) equal to or longer than the cephalon, without any body segments...
- laterally. This so-called vindicular furrow serves to lock the rim of the tailshield to the headshield when the trilobite is enrolled. The axial rings of the...