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Delaria antiqua

Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae

Taxonomy
Anisopyge antiqua was named by Girty (1908). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USNM706e, Hess Canyon, Glass Mountains, which is in a Roadian marine limestone in the Word Formation of Texas.

It was recombined as Delaria antiqua by Brezinski (1992).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1908Anisopyge antiqua Girty p. 509 figs. Pl 24, figs 23-26
1992Delaria antiqua Brezinski p. 934 figs. 7.1-7.7, 7.15-7.17

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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
familyPhillipsiidaeOehlert 1886
subfamilyDitomopyginaeHupe 1953
genusDelariaWeller 1944
speciesantiqua()

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.

†Delaria antiqua Girty 1908
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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: deposit feedero
Vision: well-developedf
Created: 2009-12-19 02:34:58
Modified: 2009-12-19 04:34:58
Source: f = family, o = order, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Fortey and Owens 1999, Whittington et al. 1997

Age range: base of the Kungurian to the top of the Roadian or 279.30000 to 268.80000 Ma

Collections (16 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kungurian279.3 - 272.3USA (Texas) Delaria antiqua (43495 43517 75865 81950 102623)
Roadian272.3 - 268.8USA (Texas) Anisopyge antiqua (108832) Delaria antiqua (type locality: 43553 43563 81645 101782 101783 101793 101807 102607 102610 102611)