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Asaphus (Asaphus) lepidurus

Artiopoda - Asaphida - Asaphidae

Taxonomy

Asaphus lepidurus was named by Nieszkowski (1859). It is not extant.

It was recombined as Asaphus (Asaphus) lepidurus by Nieszkowski (1859).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

A. laticaudatus, A. major, A. cornutus, A. cornutus, A. itferensis, A. laevissimus, A. latus, A. levissimus, A. platyurus, A. robergi, A. jevensis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1859	Asaphus (Asaphus) lepidurus Nieszkowski

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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
class	Trilobita	Walch 1771

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Libristoma
order	Asaphida	Salter 1864
superfamily	Asaphoidea	Salter 1864
family	Asaphidae	Burmeister 1843
subfamily	Asaphinae	Burmeister 1843
genus	Asaphus	Brongniart 1822
subgenus	Asaphus	Brongniart 1822
species	lepidurus	(Nieszkowski 1859)

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.

†Asaphus (Asaphus) lepidurus Nieszkowski 1859

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

low Mg calcitec

Composition 2:

chitinc

Entire body:

yesg

Adult length:

10 to < 100g

Adult width:

10 to < 100g

Spines:

noneg

Ontogeny:

molting, addition of partsc

Environment:

marinec

Locomotion:

fast-movingo

Life habit:

low-level epifaunalo

Diet:

carnivorec

Vision:

well-developedf

Created:

2009-06-08 11:40:13

Modified:

2009-06-08 13:42:14

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

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

Age range: base of the Volkhov to the top of the Arenig or 471.30000 to 468.00000 Ma

Collections (42 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Hunneberg - Volkhov	482.9 - 469.1	Russian Federation (Moscow oblast)	Asaphus lepidurus (235824)
Hunneberg - Kunda	482.9 - 464.3	Russian Federation (Yaroslavl oblast)	Asaphus lepidurus (235856)
Arenig	477.1 - 468.0	Russian Federation	Asaphus lepidurus (66936)
Langevoja	472.1 - 469.1	Sweden	Asaphus lepidurus (198078 198098 198101 198105)
Volkhov	471.3 - 469.1	Sweden	Asaphus lepidurus (188265)
Volkhov	471.3 - 469.1	Russian Federation (Leningrag oblast)	Asaphus lepidurus (235818)
Volkhov	471.3 - 469.1	Russian Federation	Asaphus lepidurus (157104 157106 157107 157110 157111 157112 157113 157114 157115 157116 157117 157118 157119 157120 157121 157122 157123 157124 157125 157126 157127 157128 157131 157133 157134 157135 157136 157137 157139 157141 169213)
Kunda	469.1 - 464.3	Sweden	Asaphus lepidurus (188218)
Kunda	469.1 - 464.3	Russian Federation	Asaphus lepidurus (157142)