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Pianaspis sors

Artiopoda - Ptychopariida - Papyriaspididae

Taxonomy
Tosotychia sors was named by Öpik (1961). Its type specimen is CPC 3547 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is D18. Road crossing Boomerang Creek, which is in a Boomerangian carbonate limestone in the Devoncourt Limestone Formation of Australia.

It was recombined as Pianaspis sors by Sundberg (1999).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1961Tosotychia sors Öpik pp. 160 - 161 figs. PI. 15; Text-fig. 50
1999Pianaspis sors Sundberg pp. Appendix 3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
RankNameAuthor
classArtiopodaHou and Bergstrom
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
subclassLibristoma
orderPtychopariidaSwinnerton 1915
familyPapyriaspididaeWhitehouse 1939
genusPianaspisSaito and Sakakura 1936
speciessors()

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.

†Pianaspis sors Öpik 1961
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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: fast-movingc
Life habit: low-level epifaunalc
Diet: carnivorec
Vision: well-developedf
Created: 2010-01-03 02:49:40
Modified: 2010-01-03 04:49:40
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Whittington et al. 1997, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: Boomerangian or 500.50000 to 499.00000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Boomerangian500.5 - 499.0Australia (Queenslandd) Tosotychia sors (225252)
Boomerangian500.5 - 499.0New Zealand (Nelson) Pianaspis sors (7897)