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Pseudophalacroma ovale

Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae

Taxonomy
Phalagnostus ovalis was named by Yang (1982). It is not extant.

It was recombined as Pseudophalacroma ovale by Peng and Robison (2000).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1982Phalagnostus ovalis Yang
1983Pseudophalacroma triangularis Ju
2000Pseudophalacroma ovale Peng and Robison

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
orderAgnostidaSalter 1864
suborderAgnostinaSalter 1864
superfamilyCondylopygoideaRaymond 1913
familyPtychagnostidaeKobayashi 1939
genusPseudophalacromaPokrovskaya 1958
speciesovale(Yang 1982)

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.

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Invalid names: Pseudophalacroma triangularis Ju 1983 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
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: Hendy 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Zhanaarykian to the top of the Ayusokkanian or 503.00000 to 497.00000 Ma

Collections (32 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Cambrian506.5 - 497.0India Pseudophalacroma ovale (114665)
St Davids506.5 - 497.0Greenland Phalagnostus ovalis (10478)
Menevian504.5 - 499.5Sweden (Scania) Phalagnostus ovalis (179691)
Wangcunian504.5 - 497.0China (Henan) Phalagnostus ovalis (127074)
Wangcunian504.5 - 497.0China (Zhejiang) Pseudophalacroma triangularis (125532 125538 125539)
Wangcunian504.5 - 497.0China (Hunan) Pseudophalacroma ovale (49161 49162 49163 49164 49165 49283 49284 49285 49286 49288 49289 49290 128318 128319 128331 128332) Pseudophalacroma triangularis (128921 128922)
Zhanaarykian503.0 - 500.5Kazakhstan Pseudophalacroma ovale (9958 9961 9962 118097 118102)
Ayusokkanian499.5 - 497.0Kazakhstan Pseudophalacroma ovale (9950 118158)