Mysidacea taxon details
original description
Woods, H. (1923). Note on Pygocephalus from the Upper Dwyka Shales of Kimberley. <em>Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa.</em> 25: 41-42. [details]
basis of record
Kensley, B. (1975). Taxonomic Status of the Pygocephalomorphic Crustacea from the Dwyka 'White Band' (Permo-Carboniferous) of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum, 67: 25-33. [details]
additional source
Irham, M.; Schram, F.R.; Vonk, R. (2010). A new species of Pygocephalomorpha (Eumalacostraca, Peracarida) from the Leitchfield formation, Lower Carboniferous (Mississipian) of Grayson County, Kentucky, U.S.A. <em>In: Fransen, C.H.J.M., S. De Grave & P.K.L. Ng (eds.), Studies on Malacostraca: Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis Memorial Volume.— Crustaceana Monographs.</em> 14: 343-355., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/9789047427759_023 [details]
From editor or global species database
Original description Woods (1923) described it under the generic name Pygocephalus, but did not assign it a specific epithet. Broom (1931) re-examined Woods’ material and formally named it Notocaris tapscotti, establishing both the new genus Notocaris and the species tapscotti. [details]
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