Xystridura
Sign in to saveXystridura 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.
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Xystridura 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.
==Type species== Milesia templetonensis Chapman, 1929, p. 214. [synonymized with Bathyuriscus saint-smithi Chapman, 1929, p. 209, by Whitehouse, 1939, p. 199] - see Palmer and Gatehouse (1972, p. D13). 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).
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