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Remopleurides bertilloni

Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae

Taxonomy
Remopleurides bertilloni was named by Tripp (1976). Its type specimen is A.9S63, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Robergiella bertilloni by Tripp et al. (1981).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1976Remopleurides bertilloni Tripp pp. 378 - 379 figs. Pl 2, figs. 13-20
1981Robergiella bertilloni Tripp et al. p. 23
1991Remopleurides bertilloni Ingham and Tripp p. 29

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
subclassLibristoma
orderAsaphidaSalter 1864
superfamilyAsaphoideaSalter 1864
familyRemopleurididaeHawle and Corda 1847
subfamilyRemopleuridinaeHawle and Corda 1847
genusRemopleuridesPortlock 1843
speciesbertilloni

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
ReferenceDiagnosis
R. P. Tripp 1976Glabella weakly convex; anterior tongue large, protuberant; axial furrows shallow. Free cheek moderately broad; librigenal angle produced backwards in broad-based spine. Surface closely covered with fine striae arranged in Bertillon pattern.
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
Spines: minorg
Ontogeny: molting, addition of partsc
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: actively mobileg
Life habit: nektobenthicg
Diet: carnivorec
Vision: well-developedf
Created: 2009-04-13 10:12:18
Modified: 2009-06-11 09:23:24
Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Costonian or 458.40000 to 457.20000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Costonian458.4 - 457.2United Kingdom (Scotland) Robergiella bertilloni (76076)
Aurelucian458.4 - 456.6United Kingdom (Scotland) Remopleurides bertilloni (181539)