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Proceratopyge (Lopnorites)

Artiopoda - Asaphida - Ceratopygidae

Taxonomy

Lopnorites was named by Troedsson (1937). It is not extant.

It was reranked as Proceratopyge (Lopnorites) by Kobayashi and Ichikawa (1955).

It was assigned to Proceratopyge by Kobayashi and Ichikawa (1955).

Subtaxa

Proceratopyge (Lopnorites) grabaui, Proceratopyge (Lopnorites) posterolateralis

Species lacking formal opinion data

Proceratopyge asiatica, Proceratopyge brevispina, Proceratopyge captiosus, Proceratopyge chuhsiensis, Proceratopyge cryptica, Proceratopyge duibianensis, Proceratopyge fenghuangensis, Proceratopyge gordonensis, Proceratopyge inexpectata, Proceratopyge lata, Proceratopyge latirhachis, Proceratopyge mitis, Proceratopyge nectans, Proceratopyge rectispina

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1955	Proceratopyge (Lopnorites) Kobayashi and Ichikawa

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
class	Artiopoda	Hou and Bergstrom

Rank	Name	Author
class	Trilobita	Walch 1771
subclass	Libristoma
order	Asaphida	Salter 1864
superfamily	Asaphoidea	Salter 1864
family	Ceratopygidae	Raymond 1913
genus	Proceratopyge	Wallerius 1895
subgenus	Lopnorites	(Troedsson 1937)

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.

Subg. †Proceratopyge (Lopnorites) Troedsson 1937

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†Proceratopyge (Lopnorites) grabaui Troedsson 1937

†Proceratopyge (Lopnorites) posterolateralis Peng 1992

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 22:50:48

Modified:

2009-12-14 00:50:48

Source: f = family, o = order, c = class

References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Whittington et al. 1997, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Aksaian or 492.80000 to 491.50000 Ma

Collections (12 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Taoyuanian	495.2 - 486.85	China (Hunan)	Proceratopyge grabaui (126719) Proceratopyge posterolateralis (126712 126713)
Aksaian	492.8 - 491.5	Kazakhstan	Proceratopyge grabaui (118382 118385 118388 118390 118391 118393 118395 118399 118401)