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Chomatopyge marginifera

Trilobita - Proetida - Dimeropygidae

Taxonomy
Chomatopyge marginifera was named by Whittington and Evitt (1953). It is not extant. Its type specimen is USNM 116541. Its type locality is Loc. 1. Tumbling Run, 2 miles southwest of Strasburg, which is in a Blackriveran carbonate limestone in the Lincolnshire Limestone Formation of Virginia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1953Chomatopyge marginifera Whittington and Evitt pp. 51-52 figs. pl. 24 f. 40-48

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderProetidaFortey and Owens 1975
familyDimeropygidaeHupe 1953
genusChomatopyge
speciesmarginifera

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.

†Chomatopyge marginifera Whittington and Evitt 1953
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available