A review of the Carboniferous and Permian trilobites of Australia
Author
Vanderlaan, Tegan A.
Author
Ebach, Malte C.
text
Zootaxa
2015
3926
1
1
56
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3926.1.1
93974765-12a0-4ee8-bea2-e6448e88d9bd
1175-5326
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Genus
Weania
Campbell & Engel 1963
1963
Weania
Campbell & Engel
; p. 107–108. 1969
Archegonus
(
Weania
)
; Hahn & Hahn, p. 118–119. 1970
Weania
; Osmólska, p. 117–118.
1988
Weania
; Hahn & Brauckmann, p. 100, text-fig. 1. 1989b
Weania
; Hahn
et al.
, p. 149.
1989
Weania
; Engel & Morris, p. 310.
Type
species.
Weania goldringi
Campbell & Engel, 1963
.
Diagnosis.
See Hahn
et al.
(1989b: 149).
Remarks.
This genus is very similar to
Belgibole
Hahn 1963
and as such, Hahn
et al.
(1989b) have reassigned
Weania
species to the latter genus.
Weania
differs in having occipital lobes. Engel & Morris (1989) and Hahn
et al.
(1989b) have provided emended diagnoses of the genus –we follow the latter.
Species included.
Weania anglica
(Osmólska 1970)
,
Weania brewi
Hahn & Hahn 1992
,
Weania goldringi
(Campbell & Engel 1963)
,
Weania librovitchi
(Weber 1937)
,
Weania neso
(Fey 1985)
,
Weania persistens
Hahn
et al.
1989
b,
Weania superba
(Mitchell 1918)
,
Weania zarecznyi
(Jarosz 1913)
Age and distribution.
Tournaisian to Westphalian in
Australia
, Central Asia,
China
and Europe (Hahn
et al.
1989b, Engel & Morris 1989).