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Platylichas parvus

Artiopoda - Lichida - Lichidae

Taxonomy
Platylichas parvus was named by Cooper and Kindle (1936). Its type specimen is USNM 87448, a cephalon/head, and it is a 3D body fossil.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. scoticus, P. warburgi

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1936Platylichas parvus Cooper and Kindle p. 368 figs. Plate 53, fig. 16, 22

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
RankNameAuthor
classArtiopodaHou and Bergstrom
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderLichidaMoore 1959
familyLichidaeHawle and Corda 1847
subfamilyPlatylichinaePhleger 1936
genusPlatylichas(Gürich 1901)
speciesparvus

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.

†Platylichas parvus Cooper and Kindle 1936
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available