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Remopleurides asperulus

Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae

Taxonomy
Remopleurides asperulus was named by Whittington (1959) [Paratypes: USNM 137684a-c]. Its type specimen is USNM 137683, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Loc. 1a. Tumbling Run, 2 miles southwest of Strasburg, which is in an Ashbyan carbonate limestone in the Botetourt Formation of Virginia.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
R. ateuchetos, R. dalecarlicus, R. sibiricus, R. vulgaris, R. warburgae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1959Remopleurides asperulus Whittington p. 420 figs. Pl. 12, figs. 1, 2, 4, 6, 14

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
subclassLibristoma
orderAsaphidaSalter 1864
superfamilyAsaphoideaSalter 1864
familyRemopleurididaeHawle and Corda 1847
subfamilyRemopleuridinaeHawle and Corda 1847
genusRemopleuridesPortlock 1843
speciesasperulus

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.

†Remopleurides asperulus Whittington 1959
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Diagnosis
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