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Ptarmiganoides propinqua

Trilobita - Corynexochida - Zacanthoididae

Taxonomy
Dolichometopsis propinqua was named by Resser (1939). Its type specimen is USNM 98508a and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 54s - Near mouth of North side Two Mile Canyon, 2 miles se of Malad, Wasatch Mts, which is in a Menevian carbonate limestone in the Langston Formation of Idaho.

It was recombined as Ptarmiganoides propinqua by Sundberg and McCollum (2003) and Lemke (2020).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1939Dolichometopsis propinqua Resser p. 34 figs. Plate 5, figs. 11-13
2003Ptarmiganoides propinqua Sundberg and McCollum p. 949
2020Ptarmiganoides propinqua Lemke p. 389

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderCorynexochida
suborderCorynexochinaKobayashi 1935
familyZacanthoididaeSwinnerton 1915
genusPtarmiganoidesRasetti 1951
speciespropinqua()

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.

Ptarmiganoides propinqua Resser 1939
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available