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Elliptocephala asaphoides
Taxonomy
Elliptocephala asaphoides was named by Emmons (1844) [Lectotype designated by Palmer and Repina (1993).]. Its type specimen is USNM 18350a and is a 3D body fossil. It is the type species of Elliptocephala.
It was recombined as Olenus asaphoides by Hall (1847) and Fitch (1849); it was recombined as Paradoxides asaphoides by Barrande (1861); it was recombined as Olenellus (Olenus) asaphoides by Ford (1871); it was recombined as Olenellus (Elliptocephalus) asaphoides by Ford (1877); it was recombined as Olenellus asaphoides by Ford (1878), Ford (1881), Walcott (1884), Walcott (1886), Holm (1887), Lesley (1889), Matthew (1891), Bernard (1894) and Lindström (1901); it was recombined as Ebenezeria asaphoides by Marcou (1888); it was recombined as Elliptocephalus asaphoides by Marcou (1888); it was recombined as Olenellus (Mesonacis) asaphoides by Walcott (1890), Walcott (1891), Beecher (1895) and Clarke and Ruedemann (1903); it was recombined as Mesonacis (Olenellus) asaphoides by Peach (1894); it was recombined as Georgiellus asaphoides by Moberg (1899); it was recombined as Olenellus (Georgiellus) asaphoides by Pompeckj (1901).
It was recombined as Olenus asaphoides by Hall (1847) and Fitch (1849); it was recombined as Paradoxides asaphoides by Barrande (1861); it was recombined as Olenellus (Olenus) asaphoides by Ford (1871); it was recombined as Olenellus (Elliptocephalus) asaphoides by Ford (1877); it was recombined as Olenellus asaphoides by Ford (1878), Ford (1881), Walcott (1884), Walcott (1886), Holm (1887), Lesley (1889), Matthew (1891), Bernard (1894) and Lindström (1901); it was recombined as Ebenezeria asaphoides by Marcou (1888); it was recombined as Elliptocephalus asaphoides by Marcou (1888); it was recombined as Olenellus (Mesonacis) asaphoides by Walcott (1890), Walcott (1891), Beecher (1895) and Clarke and Ruedemann (1903); it was recombined as Mesonacis (Olenellus) asaphoides by Peach (1894); it was recombined as Georgiellus asaphoides by Moberg (1899); it was recombined as Olenellus (Georgiellus) asaphoides by Pompeckj (1901).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1844 | Elliptocephala asaphoides Emmons |
| 1846 | Elliptocephala asaphoides Emmons p. 65 figs. 1 - 3 |
| 1847 | Olenus asaphoides Hall pp. 256-257 figs. Pl. 67, Figs 2a-c |
| 1849 | Olenus asaphoides Fitch p. 865 |
| 1861 | Paradoxides asaphoides Barrande pp. 273-276 figs. Pl. 5, Figs 4 and 5 |
| 1871 | Olenellus (Olenus) asaphoides Ford p. 33 |
| 1877 | Olenellus (Elliptocephalus) asaphoides Ford figs. Pl. 4, Figs 1 - 10 |
| 1878 | Olenellus asaphoides Ford pp. 129-130 |
| 1881 | Olenellus asaphoides Ford pp. 250-259 figs. Figs. 1 - 3 |
| 1884 | Olenellus asaphoides Walcott pp. 36-37 figs. Pl. 21, Figs 10 - 12 |
| 1886 | Olenellus asaphoides Walcott pp. 168-170 figs. Pl. 18, Figs 3 - 8, and 10; Pl. 20, Figs 3, 3a-b; and Pl. 25, FIg. 8 |
| 1887 | Olenellus asaphoides Holm p. 515 |
| 1888 | Elliptocephalus asaphoides Marcou p. 12 |
| 1888 | Ebenezeria asaphoides Marcou p. 123 |
| 1889 | Olenellus asaphoides Lesley p. 489 |
| 1890 | Olenellus (Mesonacis) asaphoides Walcott p. 41 |
| 1891 | Olenellus asaphoides Matthew p. 289 |
| 1891 | Olenellus (Mesonacis) asaphoides Walcott pp. 637-648 figs. Pl. 86, Figs. 3, 3a-b; Pl. 88, Figs. 1, 1a-g; Pl. 89, Figs. 1, 1a; Pl. 90, Figs 1, 1a |
| 1892 | Elliptocephala asaphoides Cole pp. 340-341 |
| 1894 | Olenellus asaphoides Bernard pp. 415-416 |
| 1894 | Mesonacis (Olenellus) asaphoides Peach p. 671 figs. text fig. C |
| 1895 | Olenellus (Mesonacis) asaphoides Beecher p. 176 figs. 6-8 |
| 1899 | Georgiellus asaphoides Moberg p. 316 figs. Pl. 13, Figs 1a-1b |
| 1901 | Olenellus asaphoides Lindström pp. 12-18 figs. 1 - 10, 13 |
| 1901 | Olenellus (Georgiellus) asaphoides Pompeckj p. 16 |
| 1903 | Olenellus (Mesonacis) asaphoides Clarke and Ruedemann pp. 730-732 |
| 1910 | Elliptocephala asaphoides Walcott p. 269 figs. Plate 24, Figs, i-io; Plate 25, Figs. 1-18 |
| 1993 | Elliptocephala asaphoides Palmer and Repina p. 26 |
| 1999 | Elliptocephala asaphoides Lieberman pp. 55 - 56 fig. 12.1 |
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†Elliptocephala asaphoides Emmons 1844
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Diagnosis
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Measurements
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||