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Oryctocephalites (Parachangaspis)

Trilobita - Corynexochida - Oryctocephalidae

Taxonomy
Parachangaspis was named by Liu (1982). It is not extant.

It was reranked as Oryctocephalites (Parachangaspis) by Yuan and Zhao (2001).

It was assigned to Oryctocephalidae by Yang et al. (1993); and to Oryctocephalites by Yuan and Zhao (2001).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1982Parachangaspis Liu
1993Parachangaspis Yang et al.
2001Oryctocephalites (Parachangaspis) Yuan and Zhao

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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
subgenusParachangaspis(Liu 1982)

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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Parachangaspis haopingensis Yang et al. 1993
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: Hendy et al. 2009, Hendy 2009, Aberhan et al. 2004, Whittington et al. 1997

Age range: Duyunian or 514.00000 to 509.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Duyunian514.0 - 509.0China (Hubei) Parachangaspis haopingensis (127080)