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Rakovnicia antiqua

Arachnida

Taxonomy
Rakovnicia antiqua was named by Kušta (1885). Its type specimen is CGH Me 73, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Rakovník (Rakonitz, Prague collection), which is in a Moscovian terrestrial shale/coal in the Kladno Formation of Czechia. It is the type species of Rakovnicia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1885Rakovnicia antiqua Kušta p. 400 fig. 3
1904Rakovnicia antiqua Fritsch p. 15 figs. Pl 2, fig 4; text-fig 15
1953Rakovnicia antiqua Petrunkevitch p. 107 fig. 106,182
2008Rakovnicia antiqua Štamberg and Zajíc p. 55 fig. 32
2013Rakovnicia antiqua Dunlop et al. p. 126
2021Rakovnicia antiqua Selden p. 348 fig. 21

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
Deuteropoda
subphylumChelicerataHeymons 1901
EuchelicerataWeygoldt and Paulus 1979
RankNameAuthor
Prosomapoda
Planaterga
Dekatriata
SclerophorataKamenz et al. 2011
classArachnidaLamarck 1801
Pantetrapulmonata
subclassTetrapulmonataSchultz 1990
genusRakovnicia
speciesantiqua

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.

Rakovnicia antiqua Kušta 1885
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Diagnosis
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Measurements
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Composition: chitinc
Grouping: solitaryc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 09:55:58
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:55:58
Source: c = class
Reference: Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Moscovian or 315.20000 to 307.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Moscovian315.2 - 307.0Czechia (Central Bohemian) Rakovnicia antiqua (type locality: 126152)