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Bollandia

Artiopoda - Proetida - Phillipsiidae

Taxonomy
Bollandia was named by Reed (1943) [Sepkoski's age data: C Tour-u C Vise-u]. It is not extant. It is the type genus of Bollandiinae.

It was reranked as Griffithides (Bollandia) by Hahn et al. (1981).

It was assigned to Griffithides by Hahn et al. (1981); to Proetidae by Jell and Adrain (2002); to Proetida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Bollandiinae by Hahn et al. (1996), Hahn et al. (2003), Brezinski (2025).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1943Bollandia Reed pp. 54-65
1981Griffithides (Bollandia) Hahn et al.
1996Bollandia Hahn et al. p. 176
2002Bollandia Jell and Adrain
2002Bollandia Sepkoski
2003Bollandia Hahn et al. p. 54
2009Engelomorrisia Özdikmen p. 159
2025Bollandia Brezinski p. 175

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
RankNameAuthor
classArtiopodaHou and Bergstrom
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderProetidaFortey and Owens 1975
superfamilyProetoideaHawle and Corda 1847
familyPhillipsiidaeOehlert 1886
subfamilyBollandiinaeHahn and Brauckmann 1988
genusBollandiaReed 1943

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. †Bollandia Reed 1943
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Subg. †Bollandia (Capricornia) Engel and Morris 1996
†Bollandia alekto Hahn and Hahn 1970
†Bollandia columba Tilsley 1988
†Bollandia frechi Scupin 1900
†Bollandia persephone Phillips 1836
†Bollandia queenslandica Engel and Morris 1996
†Bollandia rugiceps Tilsley 1988
Invalid names: Capricornia Engel and Morris 1996 [synonym], Engelomorrisia Özdikmen 2009 [synonym]
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: deposit feedero
Vision: well-developedf
Created: 2009-12-19 02:34:58
Modified: 2009-12-19 04:34:58
Source: f = family, o = order, c = class
References: Whittington et al. 1997, Aberhan et al. 2004, Fortey and Owens 1999

Age range: base of the Ivorian to the top of the Asbian or 353.70000 to 335.90000 Ma

Collections (23 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ivorian353.7 - 346.7Poland B. frechi (42549 42551)
Ivorian353.7 - 346.7Belgium B. frechi (37124)
Ivorian353.7 - 346.7Australia (Queensland) B. queenslandica (216438)
Ivorian353.7 - 346.7Germany B. megaira, B. persephone (37192) B. sp. (37187) Griffithides globiceps (37132 37133)
Ivorian353.7 - 346.7Czechia B. frechi (42547) B. megaira, B. persephone (138585)
Ivorian353.7 - 346.7Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen) B. albae (229351)
Ivorian353.7 - 346.7Spain (Cáceres) B. trivignoi (37218)
Ivorian353.7 - 346.7Ireland B. obsoleta (42845)
Ivorian353.7 - 346.7Belgium (Hainaut) B. globiceps (38853)
Ivorian - Holkerian353.7 - 339.9France Griffithides frechi, Griffithides alekto (66732)
Chadian346.7 - 339.9United Kingdom (England) B. columba (5964) B. columba, B. rugiceps (5961) B. sp. (5962)
Chadian346.7 - 339.9Germany B. megaira, B. proserpina, B. frechi (37185)
Holkerian - Brigantian346.7 - 330.3Japan B. pacifica (218838)
Visean346.7 - 330.3Belgium B. obsoleta (37131)
Asbian339.9 - 335.9United Kingdom (England) B. obsoleta (5965) B. sp. (5966)