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Ritella

Trilobita - Olenida - Dokimokephalidae

Taxonomy
Ritella is a genus.

It was assigned to Trilobita by Pegel (2000); and to Dokimocephalidae by Jell and Adrain (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2000Ritella Pegel
2002Ritella Jell and Adrain p. 440

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
RankNameAuthor
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderOlenida
familyDokimokephalidae(Kobayashi 1935)
genusRitella

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.

G. †Ritella
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: low Mg calcitec
Composition 2: chitinc
Ontogeny: molting, addition of partsc
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingc
Life habit: low-level epifaunalc
Diet: carnivorec
Vision: well-developedf
Created: 2009-12-19 03:59:19
Modified: 2009-12-19 05:59:19
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Whittington et al. 1997, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: Maentwrogian or 497.00000 to 496.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Maentwrogian497.0 - 496.8Russian Federation R. plena (81113)