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Cummingella

Artiopoda - Proetida - Phillipsiidae

Taxonomy
Cummingella was named by Reed (1942) [Cammingella: Sepkoski's age data: C Tour-l C l Sepkoski's reference number: 2 Cummingella: Sepkoski's age data: C Tour-l P Sakm Sepkoski's reference number: 624]. Its type is Phillipsia jonesi. It is the type genus of Cummingellinae.

It was assigned to Proetidae by Jell (2002), Jell and Adrain (2002); to Proetida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Cummingellinae by Owens (2003), Lerosey-Aubril (2012), Brezinski (2025).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1942Cummingella Reed pp. 649 - 672
2002Cummingella Jell p. 362
2002Cummingella Jell and Adrain
2002Cammingella Sepkoski
2003Cummingella Owens p. 380
2012Cummingella Lerosey-Aubril
2025Cummingella Brezinski p. 165

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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
subfamilyCummingellinaeHahn and Hahn 1967
genusCummingellaReed 1942

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. †Cummingella Reed 1942
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Subg. †Cummingella (Cummingella) Reed 1942
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†Cummingella (Cummingella) auge Hahn and Hahn 1968
†Cummingella boikoi Mychko 2012
†Cummingella carringtonensis Etheridge and Woodward 1883
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Invalid names: Cummingella balladoolensis Reed 1942 [synonym]
†Cummingella jonesi Portlock 1843
†Cummingella laticaudata Woodward 1883
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 Kungurian or 353.70000 to 274.40000 Ma

Collections (34 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ivorian353.7 - 346.7Belgium (Hainaut) C. belisama (37319) C. brevicauda, C. belgica (216508)
Ivorian353.7 - 346.7Spain (Cáceres) C. arbizui (37218)
Ivorian353.7 - 346.7Belgium C. belisama (37127 42591) C. sp. C (37123)
Ivorian353.7 - 346.7Germany C. auge (37192) C. jonesi (37132 37133)
Ivorian353.7 - 346.7Czechia C. auge (138585) C. sp. (67220)
Ivorian - Holkerian353.7 - 339.9France C. jonesi (66732)
Chadian346.7 - 339.9United Kingdom (England) C. raniceps (5962)
Chadian346.7 - 339.9Germany C. auge (37185) C. sp. (64672)
Visean346.7 - 330.3Belgium C. sp. D, C. carringtonensis (37131)
Visean346.7 - 330.3Belgium (Namur) C. sp. (38855 38856)
Visean346.7 - 330.3Japan (Okayama-ken) C. sp. indet. (79495)
Visean346.7 - 330.3United Kingdom C. carringtonensis (37318)
Asbian339.9 - 335.9Belgium C. carringtonensis (42593)
Asbian339.9 - 335.9United Kingdom (England) C. carringtonensis (5965) C. carringtonensis, C. polonica (242121) C. insulae, C. tuberculigenata, C. auge, C. carringtonensis (5966)
Asbian339.9 - 335.9United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) C. carringtonensis (6950)
Asbian339.9 - 335.9Germany C. carringtonensis (42592)
Brigantian335.9 - 330.3United Kingdom (England) C. laticaudata (5967 229167) C. sampsoni (5968) C. tuberculingenata, C. carringtonensis (76172)
Asselian298.9 - 293.52Slovenia C. slovenica (109631)
Sterlitamakian291.7 - 290.1Russian Federation (Bashkortostan) C. boikoi (124195 124196)
Kungurian283.3 - 274.4USA (Oregon) C. sp. (7141)