Revision of F. R. C. Reed’s Ordovician trilobite types from Myanmar (Burma) and western Yunnan Province, China
Author
Fortey, Richard A.
Department of Earth Sciences, Museum of Natural History, Cromwell Road, London, SW 7 5 BD, UK.
Author
Wernette, Shelly J.
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. & Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA
Author
Hughes, Nigel C.
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Illaenus
sp. 2
Figs 14.8
,
11
1917
Illaenus
aff.
schmidti
Nieszkowski 1857
; Reed p. 46–7, pl. 7, figs 12,13.
Material.
Incomplete cranidium,
Fig. 14.11
(
Reed, 1917
, pl. 7, fig. 13),
GSI
11902; pygidium,
Fig. 14.8
(
Reed, 1917
, pl. 7, fig. 12),
GSI
11901. Both specimens from Shihtien Formation (Darriwilian) at Banpo Village in Shidian County, Baoshan Prefecture, western
Yunnan
.
Remarks.
This species is represented by an apparently crushed incomplete internal mould of a cranidium, and a pygidium in relief, also lacking the dorsal cuticle. The pygidium has broken to show the upper surface of the doublure, which is wide (sag.) and extends as far as the tip of the acutely triangular, short pygidial axis. A patch of the lower surface of the doublure with terrace ridges is also visible. This structure is typical of
Illaenus
sensu stricto
, but little more can be said about this species.