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Kingaspidoides frankenwaldensis

Artiopoda - Redlichiida - Ellipsocephalidae

Taxonomy
Agraulos frankenwaldensis was named by Wurm (1925). It is not extant.

It was recombined as Strenuella frankenwaldensis by Horstig (1954); it was recombined as Ornamentaspis frankenwaldensis by Geyer (1997); it was recombined as Kingaspidoides frankenwaldensis by Geyer (2017).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
K. laetus, K. obliquoculatus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1925Agraulos frankenwaldensis Wurm
1954Strenuella frankenwaldensis Horstig
1997Ornamentaspis frankenwaldensis Geyer
2017Kingaspidoides frankenwaldensis Geyer

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
classArtiopodaHou and Bergstrom
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderRedlichiidaRichter 1932
suborderRedlichiinaRichter 1932
superfamilyEllipsocephaloideaLin 1990
familyEllipsocephalidaeMatthew 1887
subfamilyEllipsocephalinaeMathew 1887
genusKingaspidoides(Hupe 1953)
speciesfrankenwaldensis(Wurm 1925)

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.

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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-movingo
Life habit: low-level epifaunalo
Diet: deposit feedero
Vision: well-developedf
Created: 2009-12-19 04:00:08
Modified: 2009-12-19 06:00:08
Source: f = family, o = order, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Whittington et al. 1997, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Middle Cambrian to the top of the Undillan or 506.50000 to 500.50000 Ma

Collections (25 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Delamaran509.7 - 505.3Morocco Ornamentaspis frankenwaldensis (174290 174293 174294)
Middle Cambrian506.5 - 497.0Germany (Bayern) Ornamentaspis frankenwaldensis (97598)
Undillan503.0 - 500.5Germany Kingaspidoides frankenwaldensis (186148 186149 186150 186151 186152 186153 186154 186155 186156 186157 186158 186159 186160 186163 186164 186165 186166 186167 186168 186169 186170)