Meanings
adjectiveprofixigenal (not comparable)
- not comparablebiologyRelating to or situated on the anterior part of the fixigena of a trilobite.
There are two profixigenal spines in meraspid cranidia up to 2.5 mm in sagittal length, one pair in larger cranidia of both species.
1997, Ronald P. Tripp, David M. Rudkin, William R. Evitt, “Silicified trilobites of the genus Sphaerocoryphe from the Middle Ordovician of Virginia”, in Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, volume 34, number 6, page 1
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