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Gerastos tuberculatus

Trilobita - Proetida - Proetidae

Taxonomy
Proetus tuberculatus was named by Barrande (1846).

It was recombined as Proetus (Gerastos) tuberculatus by Owens (1973); it was recombined as Gerastos tuberculatus by Chatterton et al. (2006), van Viersen (2021).

Subspecies
Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1846Proetus tuberculatus Barrande p. 74
1973Proetus (Gerastos) tuberculatus Owens p. 9–10
2006Gerastos tuberculatus Chatterton et al. p. 45
2021Gerastos tuberculatus van Viersen pp. 189, 216

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderProetidaFortey and Owens 1975
superfamilyProetoideaHawle and Corda 1847
familyProetidaeSalter 1864
subfamilyProetinaeSalter 1864
genusGerastos(Goldfuss 1843)
speciestuberculatus(Barrande 1846)

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.

Gerastos tuberculatus Barrande 1846
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Gerastos tuberculatus marocensis Chatterton et al. 2006
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: low Mg calcitec
Composition 2: chitinc
Entire body: yesf
Adult length: 10 to < 100f
Adult width: 10 to < 100f
Ontogeny: molting, addition of partsc
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingc
Life habit: low-level epifaunalc
Diet: deposit feedero
Vision: well-developedf
Created: 2009-06-11 18:30:23
Modified: 2009-12-19 04:35:55
Source: f = family, o = order, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009, Fortey and Owens 1999

Age range: Late/Upper Emsian or 399.50000 to 393.47000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Devonian419.62 - 393.47Czechia (Barrandia) Gerastos tuberculatus (12183)
Daleje - Eifelian410.62 - 387.95Czechia Gerastos tuberculatus (10469)
Emsian - Eifelian410.62 - 387.95Morocco Gerastos tuberculatus (188202)
Late/Upper Emsian399.5 - 393.47Morocco Gerastos tuberculatus (142430 181542)