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Tungtzuella

Trilobita - Asaphida - Taihungshaniidae

Taxonomy
Tungtzuella was named by Lu (1957) [Sepkoski's age data: O Aren Sepkoski's reference number: 565]. It is not extant.

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

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1957Tungtzuella Lu
2002Tungtzuella Jell and Adrain p. 456
2002Tungtzuella Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
subclassLibristoma
orderAsaphidaSalter 1864
superfamilyCyclopygoideaRaymond 1925
familyTaihungshaniidaeSun 1931
genusTungtzuellaLu 1957

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. †Tungtzuella Lu 1957
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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-movingo
Life habit: low-level epifaunalo
Diet: carnivorec
Vision: well-developedf
Created: 2009-12-14 05:36:05
Modified: 2009-12-14 07:36:05
Source: f = family, o = order, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Whittington et al. 1997

Age range: base of the Tremadoc to the top of the Floian or 486.50000 to 470.00000 Ma

Collections (14 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Tremadoc486.5 - 477.7China (Hubei) T. sp. (4728 7728)
Tremadoc486.5 - 477.7China (Hunan and Hubei) T. sp. (7719 7720)
Tremadoc486.5 - 477.7China (YunNan) T. sp. (7733 7736)
Tremadoc486.5 - 477.7China (AnHui) T. sp. (7831)
Tremadoc486.5 - 477.7China (Guizhou) T. sp. (5274 5275)
Tremadoc486.5 - 477.7China (Sichuan) T. sp. (7651 7664 7672 7673)
Floian477.7 - 470.0China T. sp. (232903)