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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Beecher's classification of the trilobites, an order including forms in which the facial sutures begin on the posterior margin of the cephalon within the genal angles and cut the anterior margin separately or unite in front of the glabella. Contrasted with Hypoparia and Proparia.

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