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Licnocephala sminue

Trilobita - Proetida - Bathyuridae

Taxonomy
Licnocephala sminue was named by Fortey and Peel (1990). Its type specimen is MGUH 18.959, a pygidium, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 'Winterhouses' (GGU 206483), which is in a Tremadocian platform/shelf-margin reef lime mudstone in the Poulsen Cliff Formation of Greenland.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1990Licnocephala sminue Fortey and Peel p. 18 figs. Fig. 4-5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderProetidaFortey and Owens 1975
familyBathyuridaeWalcott 1886
subfamilyBathyurellinaeHupe 1953
genusLicnocephala
speciessminue

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.

†Licnocephala sminue Fortey and Peel 1990
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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-movingc
Life habit: low-level epifaunalc
Diet: deposit feedero
Vision: well-developedf
Created: 2009-12-19 02:31:34
Modified: 2009-12-19 04:31:34
Source: f = family, o = order, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Fortey and Owens 1999, Whittington et al. 1997

Age range: Tremadocian or 485.40000 to 477.70000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Tremadocian485.4 - 477.7Greenland Licnocephala sminue (type locality: 181518)