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Arcuolenellus arcuatus

Trilobita - Redlichiida - Olenellidae

Taxonomy
Olenellus arcuatus was named by Palmer and Halley (1979). Its type specimen is USNM 177200 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS loc. 3148-CO, Echo Canyon, Funeral Mountains, which is in a Dyeran coastal siltstone/limestone in the Carrara Formation of California. It is the type species of Arcuolenellus.

It was recombined as Arcuolenellus arcuatus by Palmer and Repina (1993).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1979Olenellus arcuatus Palmer and Halley pp. 67-68 figs. Pl. 2, Fig. 12
1993Arcuolenellus arcuatus Palmer and Repina p. 24

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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
familyOlenellidae
genusArcuolenellus
speciesarcuatus()

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.

Arcuolenellus arcuatus Palmer and Halley 1979
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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 05:06:25
Modified: 2009-12-21 07:06:25
Source: f = family, o = order, c = class
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Aberhan et al. 2004, Whittington et al. 1997

Age range: Dyeran or 515.30000 to 511.20000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Dyeran515.3 - 511.2USA (California) Olenellus arcuatus (149609 149627 151379)