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Parvigena parvigena

Trilobita - Proetida - Proetidae

Taxonomy
Proetus parvigena was named by Warburg (1925). Its type specimen is UM D 53, a cephalon/head (cephalon with 3 thoraxic segments), and it is a 3D body fossil. It is the type species of Parvigena.

It was recombined as Paraproetus parvigenus by Pribyl (1964); it was recombined as Parvigena parvigena by Owens (1973), Jell and Adrain (2002) and Owens (2004).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1964Paraproetus parvigenus Pribyl p. 44
1973Parvigena parvigena Owens pp. 178-179 figs. 14 K-N
2002Parvigena parvigena Jell and Adrain p. 423
2004Parvigena parvigena Owens

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderProetidaFortey and Owens 1975
superfamilyProetoideaHawle and Corda 1847
familyProetidaeSalter 1864
subfamilyCornuproetinaeRichter et al. 1959
genusParvigena
speciesparvigena(Warburg 1925)

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.

Parvigena parvigena Warburg 1925
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Diagnosis
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