Pudoproetus woodwardi

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Pudoproetus woodwardi (Etheridge Jr. 1892b)

1892b Phillipsia woodwardi Etheridge Jr. in Jack & Etheridge; p. 215, pl. 7, fig. 11. 1996 Pudoproetus woodwardi ; Engel & Morris, p. 124–125, pl. 2, fig. 20.

Lectotype. QGSF966 (internal mould of partial cranidium).

Locality. Not known, possibly from the early to mid-Tournaisian ( Engel & Morris 1996).

Diagnosis. See Engel & Morris (1996: 124).

Remarks. One internal cranidium originally classified as Phillipsia woodwardi by Etheridge (1892b) was reassigned to Pudoproetus by Engel & Morris (1996). The cranidium was found with specimens of Conophillipsia Roberts 1963, but is not the same genus due to differences in length/width ratios of the glabella and the cephalon ( Engel & Morris 1996). The cranidium is similar to P. pr i s c us in dorsal view, but appears to have a wider and more convex anterior border, as opposed to the narrow, almost concave border of P. p r i s c u s. The cranidium also has a similar glabella to the other Australian Pudoproetus species, such as P. c am b re r t u s, but it does not overhang the anterior margin.