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Kathleenella

Trilobita - Asaphida - Ptychaspididae

Taxonomy
Kathleenella was named by Ludvigsen (1982) [Sepkoski's age data: Cm Trep-l Cm Trep-u Sepkoski's reference number: 697]. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Ptychaspididae by Jell and Adrain (2002); and to Ptychopariida by Sepkoski (2002).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1982Kathleenella Ludvigsen
2002Kathleenella Jell and Adrain p. 391
2002Kathleenella 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
superfamilyDikelocephaloidea(Miller 1889)
familyPtychaspididaeRaymond 1924
genusKathleenellaLudvigsen 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.

G. †Kathleenella Ludvigsen 1982
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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: 2009-12-13 23:08:03
Modified: 2009-12-14 01:08:03
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 Trempealeauan to the top of the Sunwaptan or 492.50000 to 487.50000 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sunwaptan493.5 - 487.5Canada (Alberta) K. frontalis (54093 81305)
Sunwaptan493.5 - 487.5Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador) K. maritima (81270 81271 81272)
Trempealeauan492.5 - 485.4Canada (Yukon) K. hamulata (55308) K. subula (55285 55310 55311 55312)