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Papyriaspididae

Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Papyriaspididae

Taxonomy
Papyriaspididae was named by Whitehouse (1939). It is not extant. Its type is Papyriaspis.

It was assigned to Ptychopariida by Whittington et al. (1997); and to Trilobita by Adrain (2011).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1939Papyriaspididae Whitehouse
1997Papyriaspididae Whittington et al. p. 302
2011Papyriaspididae Adrain p. 108

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
subclassLibristoma
orderPtychopariidaSwinnerton 1915
familyPapyriaspididaeWhitehouse 1939
familyPapyriaspididaeWhitehouse 1939

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.

Fm. †Papyriaspididae Whitehouse 1939
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G. †Badainjaranaspis Lu et al. 1986
G. †Papyriaspis Whitehouse 1939
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Papyriaspis lanceola Whitehouse 1939
G. †Pianaspis Saito and Sakakura 1936
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Pianaspis attenuata Lermontova and Chernysheva 1950
Pianaspis dictyodroma Yang et al. 1993
Pianaspis insuetus Lu and Zhu 1980
Pianaspis sinensis Yang 1978
Pianaspis sors Öpik 1961
G. †Prohedinia Lermontova and Chernysheva 1950
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Invalid names: Tosotychia Opik 1961 [synonym]
G. †Wandelella Robison 1988
G. †Wangcunia Peng et al. 1995
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Wangcunia wangcunensis Peng et al. 1995
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available