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Platypeltoides (Troedssonia)

Trilobita - Asaphida - Nileidae

Taxonomy
Troedssonia was named by Poletaeva (1960) [Sepkoski's age data: Cm Trep-u O Trem-u Sepkoski's reference number: 927]. It is not extant.

It was reranked as Platypeltoides (Troedssonia) by Peng (1992).

It was assigned to Platypeltoides by Peng (1992); and to Ptychopariida by Sepkoski (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1960Troedssonia Poletaeva
1992Platypeltoides (Troedssonia) Peng
2002Troedssonia Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
subclassLibristoma
orderAsaphidaSalter 1864
superfamilyCyclopygoideaRaymond 1925
familyNileidaeAngelin 1854
genusPlatypeltoidesPribyl 1949
subgenusTroedssonia(Poletaeva 1960)

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. †Platypeltoides (Troedssonia) Poletaeva 1960
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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-movingo
Life habit: low-level epifaunalo
Diet: carnivorec
Vision: well-developedf
Created: 2009-06-11 18:08:02
Modified: 2009-12-14 01:04:11
Source: f = family, o = order, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Niuchehean or 489.50000 to 485.40000 Ma

Collections (11 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Furongian497.0 - 485.4Russian Federation (Gorny Altai) Platypeltoides wimani (203914 203915 203916)
Batyrbaian - Tremadocian491.5 - 477.7Russian Federation (Siberia) Platypeltoides wimani (205624)
Niuchehean489.5 - 485.4China (Hunan) Platypeltoides wimani (126682 126683) Troedssonia elongata, Troedssonia wimani (126731) Troedssonia longiforma, Troedssonia wimani (126730) Troedssonia subquadrata (126728) Troedssonia wimani (107332 107335)