Agnostida

Condylopyge rex

Order Agnostida / Suborder Agnostina / Superfamily Condylopygoidea / Family Condylopygidae

Cambrian, Miaolingian, DrumianCzech Republic

Condylopyge rex — photo 1 — Photo 1 · Lectotype NM-CC 237, No. 1034 Recons Complete tructio dorsal n shield (Czech Republic; Whittington et al., 1997) (Samuel M. Gon III 2009) (Czech Republic; Cotton et al., 2005) NM-L43011a, L43014, L43013 (Czech Republic; Fatka et al., 2015)

Condylopyge rex — photo 2 — Photo 2 · Lectotype NM-CC 237, No. 1034 Recons Complete tructio dorsal n shield (Czech Republic; Whittington et al., 1997) (Samuel M. Gon III 2009) (Czech Republic; Cotton et al., 2005) NM-L43011a, L43014, L43013 (Czech Republic; Fatka et al., 2015)

Condylopyge rex — photo 3 — Photo 3 · Lectotype NM-CC 237, No. 1034 Recons Complete tructio dorsal n shield (Czech Republic; Whittington et al., 1997) (Samuel M. Gon III 2009) (Czech Republic; Cotton et al., 2005) NM-L43011a, L43014, L43013 (Czech Republic; Fatka et al., 2015)

Condylopyge rex — photo 4 — Photo 4 · Lectotype NM-CC 237, No. 1034 Recons Complete tructio dorsal n shield (Czech Republic; Whittington et al., 1997) (Samuel M. Gon III 2009) (Czech Republic; Cotton et al., 2005) NM-L43011a, L43014, L43013 (Czech Republic; Fatka et al., 2015)

Classification

Order Agnostida / Suborder Agnostina / Superfamily Condylopygoidea / Family Condylopygidae

Genus

Condylopyge Hawle & Corda, 1847

Genus author

Hawle I. & Corda A. J. C.

Genus etymology

condyl-, Greek, joint, swelling; pyg-, Greek, rump, tail.

Species

C. rex (Barrande, 1846)

Species author

Barrande J.

Species etymology

rex, Latin, king.

Age

Cambrian, Miaolingian, Drumian

Distribution

Czech Republic

Synonyms

Battus rex

Diagnosis

Body surface smooth; cephalon and pygidium with shallow, broad border furrows; glabellar frontal lobe approximately semicircular and very large, posterior lobe cylindrical with a posterior axial node; anterior lobe of pygidial axis divided into three rings, the middle axial nodes fused into a median ridge, the posterior lobe inflated globular.

Remarks

This species is the type species of Condylopyge.