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Asaphinae

Artiopoda - Asaphida - Asaphidae

Taxonomy
Asaphinae was named by Burmeister (1843).

It was assigned to Trilobitadae by M'Coy (1849); and to Asaphidae by Phleger (1933), Whittington (1941), Harrington and Leanza (1957), Owen and Bruton (1980), Dean (1983).

Subtaxa
Asaphus (syn. Schizophorus), Lonchobasilicus (syn. Sinomegalaspis), Ogygitella, Pseudobasilicus, Pseudomegalaspis
Entered
by S. Holland on 2006-09-10; modified by B. Kröger on 2014-10-15

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1843Asaphinae Burmeister
1849Asaphinae M'Coy p. 398
1933Asaphinae Phleger, Jr. p. 18
1941Asaphinae Whittington p. 512
1957Asaphinae Harrington and Leanza
1980Asaphinae Owen and Bruton
1983Asaphinae Dean

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
classArtiopodaHou and Bergstrom
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
subclassLibristoma
orderAsaphidaSalter 1864
superfamilyAsaphoideaSalter 1864
familyAsaphidaeBurmeister 1843
subfamilyAsaphinaeBurmeister 1843
subfamilyAsaphinaeBurmeister 1843

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.

Subfm. †Asaphinae Burmeister 1843
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G. †Asaphus Brongniart 1822
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Subg. †Asaphus (Ampyx) Dalman 1827
Subg. †Asaphus (Asaphus) Brongniart 1822
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†Asaphus (Asaphus) expansus Wahlenberg 1821
†Asaphus (Asaphus) fallax Angelin 1854
†Asaphus (Asaphus) lepidurus Nieszkowski 1859
†Asaphus (Asaphus) vicarius Törnquist 1884
Subg. †Asaphus (Onchometopus) Schmidt 1898
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Subg. †Asaphus (Platypeltis) Callaway 1877
Subg. †Asaphus (Subasaphus) Balashova 1976
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Invalid names: Asaphus (Platyasaphus) Ivantsov 2000 [synonym]
†Asaphus auriculatus Dalman 1827
†Asaphus broeggeri Schmidt 1901
†Asaphus caribouensis Walcott 1884
†Asaphus caudatus Sedgwick 1845
†Asaphus curiosa Billings 1865
†Asaphus delfinus Lawrow 1856
†Asaphus expansus Wahlenberg 1821
†Asaphus gigas Dekay 1824
†Asaphus heckeri Ivantsov 2000
†Asaphus homfrayi Salter 1866
†Asaphus knyrkoi Schmidt 1901
†Asaphus striatus Boeck 1838
Invalid names: Schizophorus Balashova 1953 [synonym]
G. †Lonchobasilicus Zhou 1980
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Invalid names: Sinomegalaspis Qu 1982 [synonym]
G. †Ogygitella Harrington and Leanza 1957
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†Ogygitella australis Harrington and Leanza 1957
G. †Pseudobasilicus Reed 1930
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†Pseudobasilicus brachyrachis Törnquist 1884
†Pseudobasilicus fortis Webby 1973
†Pseudobasilicus lawrowi Schmidt 1898
†Pseudobasilicus nobilis Barrande 1846
G. †Pseudomegalaspis Jaanusson 1953
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†Pseudomegalaspis formosus Törnquist 1884
†Pseudomegalaspis patagiata Törnquist 1884
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: low Mg calcitec
Composition 2: chitinc
Entire body: yesf
Adult length: 10 to < 100f
Adult width: 10 to < 100f
Ontogeny: molting, addition of partsc
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: low-level epifaunalo
Diet: carnivorec
Vision: well-developedf
Created: 2009-06-11 14:38:06
Modified: 2009-12-14 00:45:08
Source: f = family, o = order, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Dawan to the top of the Eastonian or 478.80000 to 449.00000 Ma

Collections (255 total)

Oldest occurrences

Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Tremadocian486.85 - 477.1United Kingdom Megalaspis homphrayi (278129)
Hunneberg - Volkhov482.9 - 469.1Russian Federation (Moscow oblast) Asaphus lepidurus, Asaphus broggeri (235824)
Hunneberg - Kunda482.9 - 464.3Russian Federation (Yaroslavl oblast) Asaphus lepidurus (235856)
Dawan478.8 - 466.6China (Hunan and Hubei) Asaphus sp. (7717)
Dawan478.8 - 466.6China (YunNan) Pseudobasilicus sp. (7745)
Floian477.1 - 471.3Argentina (La Rioja) Ogygitella australis (116141 116142 116143 116144 116145)
Arenig477.1 - 468.0Russian Federation Asaphus lepidurus, Asaphus broeggeri (66936)
Arenig477.1 - 468.0China (YunNan) Asaphus sp. (7732)
Arenig477.1 - 468.0China (AnHui) Asaphus sp. (7841)
Arenig477.1 - 468.0China (GanSu) Asaphus sp. (8555)

Youngest occurrences
Time interval Ma Country or state PBDB collection number
Keila453.9 - 452.8Russian Federation Pseudobasilicus kegelensis (235843)
Keila - Rakvere453.9 - 450.5Sweden (Jamtland) Asaphus sp. (278868)
Oandu452.8 - 451.8Russian Federation (Leningrad oblast) Pseudobasilicus kegelensis (235821)
Oandu452.8 - 451.8Belarus Asaphus sp. (192883)
Johvi452.8 - 449.9Russian Federation Asaphus jevensis (167727 167739)
Katian452.8 - 445.2Sweden (Scania) Asaphus ingens (278951)
Eastonian452.3 - 449.0Australia (New South Wales) Pseudobasilicus fortis (235980) Pseudobasilicus sp. (2648 2707 2725 2745 2751)
Maysvillian450.2 - 449.6Canada (Manitoba) Asaphus gigas (174050)
Pirgu449.5 - 445.2Sweden (Scania) Asaphus ingens (278880 278895)
Ashgill449.5 - 443.1China (XinJiang) Asaphus sp. (20787)