{{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|517}} late Botomian | image = | image_caption = | display_parents = 4 | grandparent_authority = Paterson & Jago, 2006 | genus = Megapharanaspis | parent_authority = Paterson & Jago, 2006 | species = nedini | authority = Paterson & Jago, 2006<ref name="Paterson&Jago">{{cite journal|last1= Paterson|first1= R.J.|last2= Jago|first2=J.B.|year= 2006|title= New trilobites from the Lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte at Big Gully, Kangaroo Island, South Australia|journal= Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists|volume= 32|pages= 43–57|hdl= 1959.14/10651|issn= 0810-8889}}</ref> }}
'''''Megapharanaspis nedini''''' is a small (maximally {{convert|1.3|cm|in}})<ref name="Paterson&Jago"/> trilobite of the superfamily Emuelloidea, within which it occupies a family on its own. Its fossils have been found in the Lower Cambrian of South-Australia.
== Etymology == The genus name composed of the Greek μέγας (mega), meaning ''great'', pharangos, meaning gully,<!--- have not been able to find it, translating English to modern Greek gives χαράδρα ---> and ἀσπίς (aspis) shield, referencing Big Gully on Kangaroo Island, the only known site where fossils of ''Megapharanaspis'' were collected. The species epithet ''nedini'' is in honor of Dr. Chris Nedin.
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Category:Cambrian trilobites of Australia Category:Emuelloidea Category:Redlichiida genera Category:Cambrian genus extinctions
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