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Dellea planafrons

Trilobita - Olenida - Dokimokephalidae

Taxonomy
Dellea planafrons was named by Hohensee and Stitt (1989). Its type specimen is UMC 16696, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ouachita Mountains collecting locality D, which is in a Furongian deep subtidal shelf lime mudstone in the Collier Shale Formation of Arkansas.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1989Dellea planafrons Hohensee and Stitt p. 867

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderOlenida
familyDokimokephalidae(Kobayashi 1935)
genusDelleaWilson 1949
speciesplanafrons

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.

Dellea planafrons Hohensee and Stitt 1989
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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
Ontogeny: molting, addition of partsc
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingc
Life habit: low-level epifaunalc
Diet: carnivorec
Vision: well-developedf
Created: 2009-06-02 14:45:51
Modified: 2009-06-02 16:45:51
Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class
References: Hendy 2009, Whittington et al. 1997, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: Furongian or 497.00000 to 485.40000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Furongian497.0 - 485.4USA (Arkansas) Dellea planafrons (type locality: 229131)