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Oryctocephalites typicalis

Artiopoda - Corynexochida - Oryctocephalidae

Taxonomy
Oryctocephalites typicalis was named by Resser (1939). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 54s - Near mouth of North side Two Mile Canyon, 2 miles se of Malad, Wasatch Mts, which is in a Topazan carbonate limestone in the Langston Formation of Idaho. It is the type species of Oryctocephalites.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Entered
by J. Marcot on 2019-10-02

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1939Oryctocephalites typicalis Resser p. 45 figs. pi. 3, figs. 1-6
1944Oryctocephalites typicalis Shimer and Shrock p. 257 figs. Figs. 14, 15
1968Oryctocephalites typicalis Frtiz p. 202 figs. pl. 41, Figs. 9 - 11
1969Oryctocephalites typicalis Shergold figs. text figs. 9a-f
1979Oryctocephalites typicalis Palmer and Halley p. 84 figs. Plate 13, figures l^t
1997Oryctocephalites typicalis Sundberg and McCollum p. 1073

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
classArtiopodaHou and Bergstrom
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderCorynexochida
suborderCorynexochinaKobayashi 1935
familyOryctocephalidaeBeecher 1897
subfamilyOryctocephalinaeBeecher 1897
genusOryctocephalitesResser 1939
speciestypicalisResser 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.

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Diagnosis
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