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Crotalocephalina

Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae

Taxonomy
Crotalocephalina was named by Pibyl and Vanek (1964) [Sepkoski's age data: S u D Sieg Sepkoski's reference number: 1106].

It was reranked as Cheirurus (Crotalocephalina) by Pribyl and Vanek (1964), Alberti (1969) and Sandford (2005).

It was assigned to Phacopida by Sepkoski (2002); to Cheiruridae by Jell and Adrain (2002); to Cheirurus by Pribyl and Vanek (1964), Alberti (1969) and Sandford (2005); and to Cheirurinae by Bault et al. (2021).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1964Crotalocephalina Pibyl and Vanek
1964Cheirurus (Crotalocephalina) Pribyl and Vanek
1965Gibbocephalus Pillet
1969Cheirurus (Crotalocephalina) Alberti
1978Mezocrotalus Maksimova
2002Crotalocephalina Jell and Adrain p. 361
2002Crotalocephalina Sepkoski
2002Mezocrotalus Sepkoski
2005Cheirurus (Crotalocephalina) Sandford
2021Crotalocephalina Bault et al. pp. Appendix 7

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderPhacopidaSalter 1864
suborderCheirurinaHarrington and Leanza 1957
familyCheiruridaeHawle and Corda 1847
subfamilyCheirurinae
genusCrotalocephalinaPibyl and Vanek 1964

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. †Crotalocephalina Pibyl and Vanek 1964
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Subg. †Crotalocephalina (Crotalocephalina) Pribyl and Vanek 1964
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Crotalocephalina chlupaci Přibyl and Vaňek 1962
Crotalocephalina gibbus Beyrich 1845
Invalid names: Gibbocephalus Pillet 1965 [objective synonym], Mezocrotalus Maksimova 1978 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: low Mg calcitec
Composition 2: chitinc
Entire body: yesf
Adult length: 10 to < 100f
Adult width: 10 to < 100f
Ontogeny: molting, addition of partsc
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingc
Life habit: low-level epifaunalc
Diet: carnivoref
Created: 2009-06-11 14:43:11
Modified: 2012-08-27 07:38:08
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Lochkovian to the top of the Early/Lower Emsian or 414.00000 to 402.50000 Ma

Collections (38 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Lochkovian419.2 - 410.8Czech Republic C. chlupaci (10281 10315 13895) C. sp. (14119 14121) Crotalocephalus chlupaci (14118)
Lochkovian419.2 - 410.8Morocco Cheirurus chlupaci (27054)
Lochkovian419.2 - 410.8Czech Republic (Prague) C. chlupaci (12072) C. gibbus (12068)
Early/Lower Devonian419.2 - 393.3Czech Republic (Barrandia) C. cruciata (12183)
Lochkovian - Middle Devonian419.2 - 382.7Czech Republic C. chlupaci (10314)
Late/Upper Lochkovian414.0 - 410.8Morocco Cheirurus chlupaci (27156)
Pragian410.8 - 407.6Czech Republic C. gibbus (12102 12103) C. globifrons, C. chlupaci, C. gibbus (12101) C. globifrons, C. gibbus (10378 12104) C. interrupta (10342)
Pragian410.8 - 407.6Algeria Cheirurus gibbus (27162)
Pragian410.8 - 407.6Morocco (Anti-Atlas) Cheirurus gibbus (136452 136453 136454) Cheiurus sp. (234386)
Pragian410.8 - 407.6Morocco Cheirurus gibbus (27050 27056 27060 27062 27068) C. gibba (91611) C. gibbus (208256)
Pragian410.8 - 407.6Czech Republic (Prague) C. gibbus (12083) C. globifrons (76471)
Pragian - Early/Lower Emsian410.8 - 402.5Italy Cheirurus yaworski (26245 26248 26255)
Pragian - Middle Devonian410.8 - 382.7Czech Republic C. chlupaci, C. gibbus (10372) C. globifrons, C. gibbus (10379)
Daleje - Eifelian407.6 - 387.7Czech Republic C. cruciata (10469)