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METAPROTASPIS [1 record]

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Record 1 1977-09-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

The protaspis passes into the "metaprotaspis substage when additional segments, representing post-cephalic somites, make an appearance (...) [in a trilobite.]

OBS

[A metaprotaspis is a] large protaspis, or the larger protaspis in a size-series, in which the protopygidium is relatively large and well defined.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Le stade "protaspis" [dans le développement d'un Trilobite] peut être scindé en deux sous-stades (...): le stade "metaprotaspis", où de nouveaux segments apparaissent, en arrière des précédents, pour former un protopygidium multisegmenté (...), se subdivise à son tour en degrés numérotés d'après le nombre de segments protopygidiaux (...)

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