Proetida

Linguaphillipsia buchuensis

Order Proetida / Superfamily Proetoidea / Family Phillipsiidae

Visean (Mississippian, Carboniferous)Malaysia

Linguaphillipsia buchuensis — photo 1 — Photo 1 · Literature specimen, A & B at the upper left are the holotype UMTG0582 (Malaysia; Tang et al., 2024)

Linguaphillipsia buchuensis — photo 2 — Photo 2 · Literature specimen, A & B at the upper left are the holotype UMTG0582 (Malaysia; Tang et al., 2024)

Classification

Order Proetida / Superfamily Proetoidea / Family Phillipsiidae

Genus

Linguaphillipsia Stubblefield, 1948

Genus author

Stubblefield C. J.

Genus etymology

lingua, Latin, tongue, language; Phillipsia, a trilobite genus name

Species

L. buchuensis Tang, Sone, Brezinski, Shaari, Teng & Tang H. Y., Sone M., Brezinski D. K., Shaari H.,

Species author

Minhat, 2024 Teng Y. H. & Minhat F. I.

Species etymology

Buchu, Bukit Buchu, a locality in Terengganu, Malaysia, type locality of the type specimens

Age

Visean (Mississippian, Carboniferous)

Distribution

Malaysia

Diagnosis

Dorsal shield ovate to elliptical. Glabella bell-shaped, widest opposite the palpebral lobes; four pairs of glabellar furrows, S1 long and deep; eyes large, semicircular; librigenae wide with rather long genal spines. Thorax of 9 segments; axis subequal in width to pleurae; pleurae with pleural furrows, ends pointed or rounded. Pygidium parabolic to subtriangular; axis with 15 axial rings; pleural region with 10 pleural ribs; border wide.