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Schmidtiellus mickwitzi

Trilobita - Redlichiida - Holmiidae

Taxonomy
Olenellus mickwitzi was named by Schmidt (1888). It is the type species of Schmidtiellus.

It was recombined as Elliptocephalus (Schmidtia) mickwitzi by Marcou (1890); it was recombined as Olenellus (Mesonacis) mickwitzi by Walcott (1891) and French (1897); it was recombined as Schmidtia mickwitzi by Moberg (1899); it was recombined as Mesonacis mickwitziae by Walcott (1910); it was misspelled as Mesonacis mickwitziae by Peach (1894); it was recombined as Schmidtiellus mickwitzi by Moberg and Sergerberg (1906), Palmer and Repina (1993) and Lieberman (1999).

Subspecies

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1888Olenellus mickwitzi Schmidt pp. 13-19 figs. 1-25
1889Olenellus mickwitzi Schmidt pp. 191-195 figs. 10 text figures on page 193
1890Elliptocephalus (Schmidtia) mickwitzi Marcou p. 363
1891Olenellus (Mesonacis) mickwitzi Walcott p. 634 figs. pi. 93, fig. I
1894Mesonacis mickwitziae Peach figs. text fig. B
1897Olenellus (Mesonacis) mickwitzi French figs. Pl. Ia, Fig. 8
1899Schmidtia mickwitzi Moberg pp. 319-320 figs. Pl. 13, figs. Va-c
1906Schmidtiellus mickwitzi Moberg and Sergerberg p. 35
1910Mesonacis mickwitziae Walcott p. 262 figs. Plate 26, Fig. 4, Text Figs. 16 and 17
1993Schmidtiellus mickwitzi Palmer and Repina p. 26
1999Schmidtiellus mickwitzi Lieberman p. 81

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderRedlichiidaRichter 1932
suborderOlenellina
superfamilyOlenelloidea
familyHolmiidaeHupé 1953
subfamilyHolmiinaeHupe 1953
genusSchmidtiellusMoberg 1906
speciesmickwitzi(Schmidt 1888)

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.

Schmidtiellus mickwitzi Schmidt 1888
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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: 2009-12-21 06:03:46
Modified: 2009-12-21 08:03:46
Source: f = family, o = order, c = class
References: Whittington et al. 1997, Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009
Collections
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