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Cliffia nicoleae

Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Phylacteridae

Taxonomy
Cliffia nicoleae was named by Chatterton (2020). Its type specimen is RBCM-P953, an exoskeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Site 15. Bull River Valley, which is in a Steptoean deep subtidal mudstone/limestone in Canada.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2020Cliffia nicoleae Chatterton p. 663

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
subclassLibristoma
orderPtychopariidaSwinnerton 1915
familyPhylacteridaeLudvigsen and Westrop 1989
genusCliffiaWilson 1951
speciesnicoleae

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.

†Cliffia nicoleae Chatterton 2020
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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: 1.0 to < 10g
Ontogeny: molting, addition of partsc
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingc
Life habit: low-level epifaunalc
Diet: carnivorec
Vision: well-developedf
Created: 2009-06-02 14:45:28
Modified: 2009-06-02 16:45:28
Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Whittington et al. 1997, Hendy 2009

Age range: Steptoean or 497.00000 to 493.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Steptoean497.0 - 493.5Canada (British Columbia) Cliffia nicoleae (type locality: 219685)