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Delaria granti

Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae

Taxonomy
Delaria granti was named by Brezinski (1992). Its type specimen is USNM 447542, a cephalon/head, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is USNM706e, Hess Canyon, Glass Mountains, which is in a Roadian marine limestone in the Word Formation of Texas.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1992Delaria granti Brezinski p. 935 figs. 7.8-7.14, 7.18-7.23

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderProetidaFortey and Owens 1975
superfamilyProetoideaHawle and Corda 1847
familyPhillipsiidaeOehlert 1886
subfamilyDitomopyginaeHupe 1953
genusDelariaWeller 1944
speciesgranti

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.

Delaria granti Brezinski 1992
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: low Mg calcitec
Composition 2: chitinc
Ontogeny: molting, addition of partsc
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingc
Life habit: low-level epifaunalc
Diet: deposit feedero
Vision: well-developedf
Created: 2009-12-19 02:34:58
Modified: 2009-12-19 04:34:58
Source: f = family, o = order, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Fortey and Owens 1999, Whittington et al. 1997

Age range: base of the Kungurian to the top of the Roadian or 279.30000 to 268.80000 Ma

Collections (20 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kungurian279.3 - 272.3USA (Texas) Delaria granti (43517 43574 75865 75881 102627)
Roadian272.3 - 268.8USA (Texas) Delaria granti (43512 43548 type locality: 43553 81645 101767 101793 101807 102602 102605 102610 102611 102616 102621) Ditomopyge roemeri (81693)
Roadian - Wordian272.3 - 264.28USA (Texas) Delaria granti (102630)