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Stenoblepharum strasburgense

Trilobita - Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae

Taxonomy
Proetus strasburgensis was named by Cooper (1953) [Proetus (s.1.) strasburgensis]. Its type specimen is USNM 116426a, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Loc. 3. south side of road, 0.2 mile east of Strasburg Junction, which is in a Turinian carbonate limestone in the Edinburg Formation of Virginia.

It was recombined as Stenoblepharum strasburgense by Edgecombe et al. (1997).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1953Proetus strasburgensis Cooper p. 19 figs. Pl. 1, figs. 15-18 not 19
1997Stenoblepharum strasburgense Edgecombe et al. p. 432

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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
superfamilyProetoideaHawle and Corda 1847
familyTropidocoryphidaePribyl 1946
genusStenoblepharum
speciesstrasburgense()

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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