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Mesonacis hamoculus

Trilobita - Redlichiida - Olenellidae

Taxonomy
Olenellus hamoculus was named by Cowie and McNamara (1978). Its type specimen is GSE 13302 and is a 3D body fossil. It is the type species of Olenellus (Angustolenellus).

It was recombined as Olenellus (Angustolenellus) hamoculus by Palmer and Repina (1993); it was recombined as Mesonacis hamoculus by Lieberman (1999).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1978Olenellus hamoculus Cowie and McNamara figs. Pl. 70, Fig. 3
1993Olenellus (Angustolenellus) hamoculus Palmer and Repina p. 22
1999Mesonacis hamoculus Lieberman p. 43

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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
subfamilyMesonacinae(Walcott 1891)
genusMesonacis
specieshamoculus(Cowie and McNamara 1978)

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.

Mesonacis hamoculus Cowie and McNamara 1978
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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: Whittington et al. 1997, Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009
Collections
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