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Bienvillia corax

Trilobita - Olenida - Olenidae

Taxonomy
Dikelocephalus corax was named by Billings (1865). Its type specimen is Nat. Mus. Canada 876a, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Apatokephalus corax by Bassler (1915); it was recombined as Bienvillia corax by Clark (1924).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Dikelocephalus corax Billings
1915Apatokephalus corax Bassler p. 55
1924Bienvillia corax Clark

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderOlenida
familyOlenidaeBurmeister 1843
subfamilyOleninaeBurmeister 1843
genusBienvilliaClark 1924
speciescorax(Billings 1865)

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.

†Bienvillia corax Billings 1865
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Diagnosis
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