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Anacontium carpenteri

Xiphosura - Xiphosurida - Belinuridae

Taxonomy
Anacontium carpenteri was named by Raymond (1944). Its type specimen is MCZ 4724, a carapace, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Midco Locality 15, which is in an Artinskian lacustrine lime mudstone in the Wellington Formation of Oklahoma. It is the type species of Anacontium.

Synonyms
  • Anacontium brevis was named by Raymond (1944). Its type specimen is MCZ 4726, a carapace, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Midco Locality 15, which is in an Artinskian lacustrine lime mudstone in the Wellington Formation of Oklahoma.

    It was synonymized subjectively with Anacontium carpenteri by Lamsdell (2020).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1944Anacontium carpenteri Raymond p. 496 fig. 5
1944Anacontium brevis Raymond p. 497 fig. 6
2020Anacontium carpenteri Lamsdell p. 13

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
subphylumChelicerataHeymons 1901
RankNameAuthor
—EuchelicerataWeygoldt and Paulus 1979
—Prosomapoda
classXiphosura()
orderXiphosuridaLatreille 1802
suborderBelinurina
familyBelinuridae(Zittel and Eastman 1913)
genusAnacontium
speciescarpenteri

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.

†Anacontium carpenteri Raymond 1944
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Invalid names: Anacontium brevis Raymond 1944 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: nektobenthicc
Diet: carnivorec
Vision: limitedo
Created: 2010-02-05 01:13:59
Modified: 2010-02-22 02:35:37
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Bambach et al. 2007, Jell and Adrain 2002

Age range: Artinskian or 290.10000 to 279.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Artinskian290.1 - 279.3USA (Oklahoma) Anacontium carpenteri, Anacontium brevis (type locality: 104824)