Typhlokorynetes
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| Typhlokorynetes Temporal range: | |
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| Typhlokorynetes plana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Asaphida |
| Family: | †Raphiophoridae |
| Genus: | †Typhlokorynetes |
| Species: | †T. plana |
| Binomial name | |
| †Typhlokorynetes plana (Raymond, 1937) | |
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Typhlokorynetes plana is a species of small, button-shaped asaphid trilobites of the family Raphiophoridae that lived during the Early Tremadocian of Vermont, United States.[1]
The generic epithet is a compound word of the Greek words "Typhlos," meaning "blind," and "Korynetes," which means "club-bearer," in reference to the animal's eyeless state, and the glabellum that is shaped in the outline of a club or bowling pin.[1] The specific name "plana" refers to the flattened nature of the body.