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Elsarella rumbaensis

Trilobita - Phacopida - Encrinuridae

Taxonomy
Encrinurus rumbaensis was named by Rosenstein (1941). Its type specimen is ETAGI Tr 1866, a pygidium, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is River Püürdu by the railway bridge near Rumba Station, which is in an Adavere carbonate limestone in the Rumba Formation of Estonia.

It was recombined as Elsarella rumbaensis by Edgecombe and Ramsköld (1996).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1941Encrinurus rumbaensis Rosenstein p. 67 figs. pl. 4, fig. 3
1996Elsarella rumbaensis Edgecombe and Ramsköld pp. 224 - 225 figs. P1. 31, figs. 1-14

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderPhacopidaSalter 1864
suborderCheirurinaHarrington and Leanza 1957
familyEncrinuridaeAngelin 1854
genusElsarella
speciesrumbaensis(Rosenstein 1941)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Elsarella rumbaensis Rosenstein 1941
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: low Mg calcitec
Composition 2: chitinc
Entire body: yesf
Adult length: 10 to < 100f
Adult width: 10 to < 100f
Ontogeny: molting, addition of partsc
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingc
Life habit: low-level epifaunalc
Diet: carnivorec
Created: 2009-06-11 14:51:52
Modified: 2009-06-11 16:52:10
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009

Age range: Adavere or 439.00000 to 428.20000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Adavere439.0 - 428.2Estonia Encrinurus rumbaensis (192931 195607)