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Phaseolops

Trilobita - Proetida - Proetidae

Taxonomy
Phaseolops was named by Whittington (1963) [Sepkoski's age data: O Llvi-l O Llde Sepkoski's reference number: 388,1075]. Its type is Phaseolops sepositus.

It was assigned to Proetidellinae by Whittington (1963); to Rorringtoniinae by Owens and Hammann (1990); to Proetida by Fortey and Owens (1975) and Sepkoski (2002); to Tropidocoryphidae by Jell and Adrain (2002); and to Proetidae by Fortey and Bruton (2013).

Species
P. bobowensi, P. sepositus (type species)
Species lacking formal opinion data
P. ceryx

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1963Phaseolops Whittington pp. 36 - 37
1975Phaselops Fortey and Owens p. 230
1990Phaseolops Owens and Hammann
2002Phaseolops Jell and Adrain pp. 425, 481
2002Phaselops Sepkoski
2013Phaseolops Fortey and Bruton

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderProetidaFortey and Owens 1975
superfamilyProetoideaHawle and Corda 1847
familyProetidaeSalter 1864
genusPhaseolops

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.

G. †Phaseolops Whittington 1963
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†Phaseolops bobowensi Fortey and Bruton 2013
†Phaseolops sepositus Whittington 1963
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
H. B. Whittington 1963Glabella tapering forward, three pairs of lateral glabellar furrows. Broad, convex preglabellar field, lateral cephalic border flattened, anterior border convex, long librigenal spine. Large eye lobe situated close to axial and posterior border furrows, anterior branches of suture widely divergent. Rostral plate triangular. Hypostome unknown. Ten thoracic segments, pleural tips pointed. Pygidium with three axial rings and three bluntly-pointed pleurae, faint anterior band of fourth pleura.