Psychopyge elegans
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Family Acastidae
Psychopyge elegans G&H TERMIER, 1950
Lower Devonian (Emsian) 392,000,000 ybp, or so
Hamar Laghdad Formation
Morocco
The Termiers had a sense of humor, it seems. The type specimen is a pygidium, and the species name, Psychopyge elegans, translates to "elegant soul rump" or maybe "the rump of an elegant soul."
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