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Acidusus occultatus

Artiopoda - Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae

Taxonomy
Ptychagnostus (Acidusus) occultatus was named by Öpik (1979). Its type specimen is CPC 14257 and is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Acidusus occultatus by Laurie (2008).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
A. navus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1979Ptychagnostus (Acidusus) occultatus Öpik pp. 103 - 104 figs. PI. 48, figs. 1-2; Text-fig. 30
2008Acidusus occultatus Laurie

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
RankNameAuthor
classArtiopodaHou and Bergstrom
orderAgnostidaSalter 1864
suborderAgnostinaSalter 1864
superfamilyCondylopygoideaRaymond 1913
familyPtychagnostidaeKobayashi 1939
genusAcidusus(Opik 1979)
speciesoccultatus()

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.

†Acidusus occultatus Öpik 1979
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Entire body: yesf
Adult length: 1.0 to < 10f
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10f
Locomotion: slow-movingo
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: detritivoreo
Vision: blindf
Created: 2009-06-11 18:42:48
Modified: 2009-12-13 04:44:17
Source: f = family, o = order
References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy 2009

Age range: Undillan or 503.00000 to 500.50000 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Marjumian504.5 - 497.0USA (Utah) Ptychagnostus occultatus (77206 230679 230682)
Undillan503.0 - 500.5Australia (Queeland) Acidusus occultatus (225234)
Undillan503.0 - 500.5Australia (Queensland) Acidusus occultatus (225232 225233)