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Amechilus palaora

Artiopoda

Taxonomy
Amechilus palaora was named by Ross (1951). Its type specimen is YPM 18182, a cephalon/head (c), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Locality 5, Hillyard's Canyon, Zone "E", which is in a Stairsian shallow subtidal limestone in the Garden City Formation of Idaho. It is the type species of Amechilus.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
A. tuberculatus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1951Amechilus palaora Ross p. 112 figs. Pl. 28, fig. 15

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
RankNameAuthor
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
classArtiopodaHou and Bergstrom
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
genusAmechilus
speciespalaora

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.

†Amechilus palaora Ross 1951
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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: carnivorec
Vision: well-developedg
Created: 2010-02-01 04:02:43
Modified: 2010-02-01 06:02:43
Source: g = genus, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Jell and Adrain 2002

Age range: Stairsian or 483.40000 to 481.70000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Stairsian483.4 - 481.7USA (Idaho) Amechilus palaora (type locality: 103809)