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Pseudophalacroma

Artiopoda - Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae

Taxonomy
Pseudophalacroma was named by Pokrovskaya (1958) [non Jörgensen, 1883, a dinoflagellid protist]. It is not extant. Its type is Phalacroma dubium.

It was replaced with Yakutiana by Özdikmen (2009); it was misspelled as Pseudophalocroma by Peng et al. (2009), Naimark and Pegel (2017).

It was assigned to Ptychagnostidae by Jell and Adrain (2002), Peng et al. (2009), Naimark and Pegel (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1958Pseudophalacroma Pokrovskaya
2002Pseudophalacroma Jell and Adrain p. 434
2009Pseudophalocroma Peng et al.
2017Pseudophalacroma Naimark and Pegel p. 1184

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
RankNameAuthor
classArtiopodaHou and Bergstrom
orderAgnostidaSalter 1864
suborderAgnostinaSalter 1864
superfamilyCondylopygoideaRaymond 1913
familyPtychagnostidaeKobayashi 1939
genusPseudophalacromaPokrovskaya 1958

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. †Pseudophalacroma Pokrovskaya 1958
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Pseudophalacroma dubium Whitehouse 1936
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Invalid names: Pseudophalacroma crebra Pokrovskaya 1958 [synonym]
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Invalid names: Pseudophalacroma triangularis Ju 1983 [synonym]
Pseudophalacroma scanense Westergard 1946
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
E. B. Naimark and T. V. Pegel 2017Cephalon with very narrow border structures, glabella moderately high; axial furrows effaced, except part outlining basal lobes; median node usually absent. Pygidium with high acrolobe, with convex or slightly flattened border, widened at rear, nonspinose, border furrow deliquiate and moderately wide; axis outlined at M1, sometimes with vestiges of M2 and M3; axial node very small.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Entire body: yesf
Adult length: 1.0 to < 10f
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10f
Locomotion: slow-movingo
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: detritivoreo
Vision: blindf
Created: 2009-06-11 18:42:48
Modified: 2009-12-13 04:44:17
Source: f = family, o = order
References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy 2009

Age range: base of the Zhanaarykian to the top of the Boomerangian or 503.00000 to 499.00000 Ma

Collections (41 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Cambrian506.5 - 497.0India P. ovale (114665)
St Davids506.5 - 497.0Greenland Phalagnostus ovalis (10478)
Mayan504.5 - 499.5Russian Federation (Sakha) P. crebra (225247)
Mayan504.5 - 499.5Russian Federation P. crebra (225248)
Menevian504.5 - 499.5Sweden (Scania) Phalagnostus ovalis (179691)
Marjumian504.5 - 497.0USA (Utah) P. rigbyi (230679)
Wangcunian504.5 - 497.0China (Hunan) P. dubium (49281 49282 128317) P. ovale (49163 49164 49165 49284 49285 49286 49288 49289 49290 128318 128319 128331 128332) P. ovale, P. dubium (49161 49162) P. ovale, P. dubium, P. scanense (49283) P. triangularis (128921 128922)
Wangcunian504.5 - 497.0China (Henan) Phalagnostus ovalis (127074)
Wangcunian504.5 - 497.0China (Zhejiang) P. dubium, P. triangularis (125538 125539) P. triangularis (125532)
Wangcunian - Guzhangian504.5 - 497.0China (Zhejiang) P. sp., P. dubium (125554)
Zhanaarykian503.0 - 500.5Kazakhstan P. ovale, P. dubium (9958 9961 9962 118097 118102)
Boomerangian500.5 - 499.0Australia (Queenslandd) P. sp. K, P. dubium (225252)
Boomerangian500.5 - 499.0New Zealand (Nelson) P. sp. (7897)
Ayusokkanian499.5 - 497.0Kazakhstan P. ovale, P. dubium (9950 118158)