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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of opisthoparian trilobites, often of notable size, having a well-defined and lobed glabella, fourteen thoracic segments, and small round pygidium with a telson-like spine: characteristic of the Lower Cambrian or Olenellus stage.

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