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Apatokephaloides pauper

Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae

Taxonomy
Dikelocephalus pauper was named by Billings (1865). Its type specimen is Nat. Mus. Canada 877b, a cephalon/head, and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Apatokephaloides pauper by Rasetti (1944).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Dikelocephalus pauper Billings p. 238
1944Apatokephaloides pauper Rasetti p. 238

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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
genusApatokephaloidesRaymond 1924
speciespauper(Billings 1865)

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.

Apatokephaloides pauper Billings 1865
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: low Mg calcitec
Composition 2: chitinc
Ontogeny: molting, addition of partsc
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: actively mobilef
Life habit: nektobenthicf
Diet: carnivorec
Vision: well-developedf
Created: 2009-04-13 10:12:30
Modified: 2009-12-14 07:33:04
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Trempealeauan to the top of the Sunwaptan or 492.50000 to 487.50000 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sunwaptan493.5 - 487.5Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador) Apatokephaloides pauper (81269 81270 81271)
Trempealeauan492.5 - 485.4Canada (Quebec) Apatokephaloides pauper (224138 224140 224141)