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Roksaspis turbinella

Trilobita - Olenida - Parabolinoididae

Taxonomy
Roksaspis turbinella was named by Ludvigsen et al. (1989). Its type specimen is GSC 69871, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cow Head CH 58, which is in a Sunwaptan platform/shelf-margin reef limestone in the Shallow Bay Formation of Canada. It is the type species of Roksaspis.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1989Roksaspis turbinella Ludvigsen et al. p. 21 figs. Pl. 11, fig. 11-12

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderOlenida
familyParabolinoididaeLochman 1956
genusRoksaspis
speciesturbinella

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Roksaspis turbinella Ludvigsen et al. 1989
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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: 2009-12-13 23:05:14
Modified: 2009-12-14 01:05:14
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Whittington et al. 1997

Age range: Sunwaptan or 493.50000 to 487.50000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sunwaptan493.5 - 487.5Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador) Roksaspis turbinella (type locality: 81273 81288)