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Briscoia llanoensis

Trilobita - Asaphida - Dikelocephalidae

Taxonomy
Briscoia llanoensis was named by Winston and Nicholls (1967). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CC-58.2, which is in a Trempealeauan carbonate limestone in the Wilberns Formation of Texas.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1967Briscoia llanoensis Winston and Nicholls pp. 73 - 76 figs. P1. 10, figs. 1-3, 5
2023Briscoia llanoensis Srivastava and Hughes pp. Table 1

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
subclassLibristoma
orderAsaphidaSalter 1864
superfamilyDikelocephaloidea(Miller 1889)
familyDikelocephalidae(Miller 1889)
genusBriscoiaWalcott 1924
speciesllanoensis

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.

Briscoia llanoensis Winston and Nicholls 1967
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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-movingo
Life habit: low-level epifaunalo
Diet: carnivorec
Vision: well-developedf
Created: 2009-12-13 22:54:18
Modified: 2009-12-14 00:54:18
Source: f = family, o = order, c = class
References: Whittington et al. 1997, Hendy et al. 2009, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: Trempealeauan or 492.50000 to 485.40000 Ma

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Trempealeauan492.5 - 485.4USA (Texas) Briscoia llanoensis (216015 219648 219651 219652 219653 219654 type locality: 233745 233747)