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Liostracina

Trilobita - Trinucleida - Liostracinidae

Taxonomy
Liostracina was named by Monke (1903) [Sepkoski's age data: Cm uMid Cm Dres-l Sepkoski's reference number: 16,464]. It is not extant. Its type is Liostracina krausei.

It was assigned to Liostracinidae by Jell and Adrain (2002); and to Asaphida by Sepkoski (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1903Liostracina Monke
2002Liostracina Jell and Adrain p. 398
2002Liostracina Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
subclassLibristoma
orderTrinucleida(Swinnerton 1915)
familyLiostracinidaeRaymond 1937
genusLiostracinaMonke 1903

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. †Liostracina Monke 1903
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Liostracina bella Lin et al. 1983
Liostracina bilimbata Zhang 1983
Liostracina krausei Monke 1903
Liostracina tangwangzhaiensis Park et al. 2014
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: blindf
Created: 2010-01-25 00:17:59
Modified: 2010-02-26 06:31:14
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Whittington et al. 1997, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: base of the Ayusokkanian to the top of the Payntonian or 499.50000 to 488.30000 Ma

Collections (41 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Cambrian509.0 - 497.0China L. tangwangzhaiensis (228206)
Guzhangian500.5 - 497.0China (Shanxi) L. krausei (129812)
Guzhangian500.5 - 497.0China (Liaoning) L. krausei (126815 129882 129884 129890 129892 129893 129894)
Guzhangian500.5 - 497.0South Korea L. bilimbata (152614 152627 152633 152635 152636 152637)
Guzhangian500.5 - 497.0China (Jiangsu) L. bella (127375 127377 127378 127381) L. krausei (129925 129926)
Guzhangian500.5 - 497.0China (Yunnan) L. sp. (219647)
Guzhangian500.5 - 497.0China (Shandong) L. krausei (129897)
Guzhangian500.5 - 497.0China (Hunan) L. bella (49182 49184 49185 49186 49190 107050 126329 126346 126348 126439 126442 126444) L. taoyuanensis, L. bella (128933)
Guzhangian500.5 - 497.0China (Hebei) L. krausei (129589)
Guzhangian500.5 - 497.0China (Henan) L. krausei (129208)
Ayusokkanian499.5 - 497.0Kazakhstan L. krausei (118244 118245)
Payntonian489.5 - 488.3Australia (Northern Territory) L. krausei (77426)