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Oryctocephalus maladensis

Trilobita - Corynexochida - Oryctocephalidae

Taxonomy
Oryctocephalus maladensis was named by Resser (1939). It 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 Oryctocephalina maladensis by Palmer and Halley (1979).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1939Oryctocephalus maladensis Resser p. 44
1968Oryctocephalus maladensis Fritz p. 202 figs. pi. 41, figs. 25-27
1979Oryctocephalina maladensis Palmer and Halley p. 83 figs. Plate 12, figures 21, 22, 27
1997Oryctocephalus maladensis Sundberg and McCollum p. 1073

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
Life
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderCorynexochida
suborderCorynexochinaKobayashi 1935
familyOryctocephalidaeBeecher 1897
subfamilyOryctocephalinaeBeecher 1897
genusOryctocephalusWalcott 1886
speciesmaladensisResser 1939

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.

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Diagnosis
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