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Delaria brevis

Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae

Taxonomy
Delaria brevis was named by Brezinski (1992). Its type specimen is USNM 447546, a pygidium, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is USNM703c, Old Word Ranch, Glass Mountains, which is in a Kungurian slope limestone in the Road Canyon Formation of Texas.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1992Delaria brevis Brezinski p. 935 figs. 7.24-7.29

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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
speciesbrevis

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 brevis Brezinski 1992
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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: Whittington et al. 1997, Fortey and Owens 1999, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: base of the Kungurian to the top of the Wordian or 279.30000 to 264.28000 Ma

Collections (17 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kungurian279.3 - 272.3USA (Texas) Delaria brevis (43495 43513 43515 type locality: 43517 43589 101785)
Roadian272.3 - 268.8USA (Texas) Delaria brevis (101782 101783 101793 101807 102603 102606 102611 102614 102615)
Roadian - Wordian272.3 - 264.28USA (Texas) Delaria brevis (102630)
Wordian266.9 - 264.28USA (Texas) Delaria brevis (102619)