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Oryctocephalites salteri

Trilobita - Corynexochida - Oryctocephalidae

Taxonomy
Oryctocephalus salteri was named by Reed (1910). It is not extant.

It was recombined as Oryctocephalites salteri by Sundberg and McCollum (1997).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1910Oryctocephalus salteri Reed
1997Oryctocephalites salteri Sundberg and McCollum p. 1073

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderCorynexochida
suborderCorynexochinaKobayashi 1935
familyOryctocephalidaeBeecher 1897
subfamilyOryctocephalinaeBeecher 1897
genusOryctocephalitesResser 1939
speciessalteri(Reed 1910)

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
Entire body: yesg
Adult length: 10 to < 100g
Adult width: 10 to < 100g
Ribbing: noneg
Spines: minorg
Ontogeny: molting, addition of partsc
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: nektobenthico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedf
Created: 2009-02-26 12:01:49
Modified: 2009-02-26 14:01:49
Source: g = genus, f = family, o = order, c = class
References: Whittington et al. 1997, Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: St Davids or 509.00000 to 497.00000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Cambrian509.0 - 497.0India Oryctocephalus salteri (116461 116462 116463 116465)
St Davids509.0 - 497.0India (Himachal Pradesh) Oryctocephalus salteri (46501)