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Keithiella cylindrica

Trilobita - Asaphida - Ptychaspididae

Taxonomy
Arionellus cylindricus was named by Billings (1860). Its type specimen is Nat. Mus. Canada 837a, a cephalon/head, and it is a 3D body fossil. It is the type species of Keithiella.

It was recombined as Agraulos cylindricus by Miller (1889); it was recombined as Keithiella cylindrica by Rasetti (1944).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1860Arionellus cylindricus Billings p. 243
1889Agraulos cylindricus Miller
1944Keithiella cylindrica Rasetti p. 243

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
subclassLibristoma
orderAsaphidaSalter 1864
superfamilyDikelocephaloidea(Miller 1889)
familyPtychaspididaeRaymond 1924
genusKeithiella
speciescylindrica(Billings 1860)

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.

Keithiella cylindrica Billings 1860
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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
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10g
Spines: minorg
Ontogeny: molting, addition of partsc
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: low-level epifaunalo
Diet: carnivorec
Vision: well-developedf
Created: 2009-06-09 09:48:02
Modified: 2009-06-09 11:48:02
Source: g = genus, f = family, o = order, c = class
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Whittington et al. 1997, Hendy 2009, Aberhan et al. 2004

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

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sunwaptan493.5 - 487.5Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador) Keithiella cylindrica (81270 81285 81286 81287)
Trempealeauan492.5 - 485.4Canada (Quebec) Keithiella cylindrica (224137 224138 224139 224140)