A Review of the Carboniferous and Permian Trilobites of Australia

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A Review of the Carboniferous and Permian Trilobites of Australia

Zootaxa 3926 (1): 001–056 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ Article ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2015 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3926.1.1 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:342DDB94-4739-464B-AF67-4B17C6EE35D7 A review of the Carboniferous and Permian trilobites of Australia TEGAN A. VANDERLAAN & MALTE C. EBACH School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UNSW, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia and, Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney NSW 2010, Australia. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Table of contents Abstract . 3 Introduction . 3 Systematic Palaeontology . 9 Class TRILOBITA Walch 1771 . 9 Order AULACOPLEURIDA Adrain 2011 . 9 Superfamily AULACOPLEUROIDEA Angelin 1854 . 9 Family AULACOPLEURIDAE Angelin 1854 . 9 Subfamily OTARIONINAE Richter & Richter 1926 . 9 Genus Namuropyge Richter & Richter 1939 . 9 Namuropyge australis Engel & Morris 1991 . 10 Namuropyge uniserialis Engel & Morris 1991 . 10 Order PROETIDA Fortey & Owens 1975 . 12 Family BRACHYMETOPIDAE Prantl & Pribyl 1950. 12 Subfamily BRACHYMETOPINAE Prantl & Pribyl 1950 . 12 Genus Brachymetopus McCoy 1847 . 12 Subgenus Brachymetopus McCoy 1847 . 12 Brachymetopus (Brachymetopus) gloriosus Engel & Morris 1996 . 12 Brachymetopus (Brachymetopus) intermedius Engel & Morris 1992 . 13 Brachymetopus (Brachymetopus) medinodulosus Engel & Morris 1992 . 13 Brachymetopus (Brachymetopus) ararat Engel & Morris 1992. 13 Brachymetopus (Brachymetopus) regularis Engel & Morris 1992 . 14 Brachymetopus (Brachymetopus) strzeleckii McCoy 1847 . 14 Brachymetopus (Brachymetopus) strzeleckii strzeleckii McCoy 1847 . 15 Brachymetopus (Brachymetopus) dunstani Mitchell 1918 . 15 Brachymetopus (Brachymetopus?) subtilis Engel & Morris 1991 . 15 Genus Australosutura Campbell & Goldring in Amos et al. 1960 . 16 Australosutura campbelli Engel & Morris 1992 . 16 Australosutura gardneri (Mitchell 1922) . 17 Superfamily PROETOIDEA Hawle & Corda 1847 . 17 Family PROETIDAE Salter 1864 . 17 Subfamily PROETINAE Salter 1864 . 17 Genus Pudoproetus Hessler 1963 . 17 Pudoproetus woodwardi (Etheridge Jr. 1892b) . 18 Pudoproetus cambrertus (Jell 1977) . 18 Subfamily CRASSITPROETINAE Osmólska 1970. 18 Genus Monodechenella Stumm 1953 . 18 Monodechenella breviceps (Mitchell 1918) . 19 Monodechenella speciosa (Engel & Morris 1984) . 20 Monodechenella subtriangularis (Engel & Morris 1984). 20 Monodechenella subquadrata (Engel & Morris 1984). 21 Monodechenella magna (Hahn & Hahn 1972) . 21 Monodechenella grandis (Etheridge Jr 1892a) . 22 Monodechenella morganensis (Mitchell 1918) . 22 Family PHILLIPSIIDAE (Oehlert 1886) . 23 Subfamily ARCHEGONINAE Hahn & Brauckmann 1984 . 23 Accepted by J. Paterson: 11 Nov. 2014; published: 4 Mar. 2015 1 Genus Thalabaria Engel & Morris 1989 . 23 Thalabaria plana (Engel & Morris 1980) . 23 Genus Xenoboloides Brauckmann 1987 . 23 Xenoboloides peregrina (Engel & Morris 1980). 24 Subfamily BOLLANDIINAE Hahn & Brauckmann 1988 . 24 Genus Bollandia Reed 1943 . ..

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