Asaphida

Erixanium sp.

Order Asaphida / Superfamily Anomocaroidea / Family Aphelaspididae

Paibian (Furongian, Cambrian)Hunan
Classification
Order Asaphida / Superfamily Anomocaroidea / Family Aphelaspididae
Genus
Erixanium Öpik, 1963
Genus author
Öpik A. A.
Genus etymology
Erixanium, Greek, a comb, describing the long thoracic spines
Species
Erixanium sp.
Species author
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Species etymology
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Age
Paibian (Furongian, Cambrian)
Distribution
Hunan
Diagnosis
Compared with the type species Erixanium sentum, this species has a more rectangular glabella, a shorter preglabellar field, a wider border, smaller palpebral lobes, indistinct eye ridges, and more transverse glabellar furrows, a longer pygidium, and an axis with possibly 7 rings.