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Heliomeroides teres

Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae

Taxonomy
Heliomeroides teres was named by Evitt (1951). Its type specimen is USNM 116294, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Loc. 7, bridge east of Edinburg, which is in a Blackriveran carbonate limestone in the Edinburg Formation of Virginia. It is the type species of Heliomeroides.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
H. alacar

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1905Heliomera sol Raymond fig. 276
1951Heliomeroides teres Evitt p. 594 figs. Pl. 85, figs. 1-5
1951Heliomera sol Evitt p. 603
1967Heliomera chipperfieldi Tripp p. 66
1968Heliomeroides akocephala Shaw p. 69 figs. Pl. 4, igs. 14, 22

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderPhacopidaSalter 1864
suborderCheirurinaHarrington and Leanza 1957
familyCheiruridaeHawle and Corda 1847
genusHeliomeroides
speciesteres

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.

†Heliomeroides teres Evitt 1951
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Invalid names: Heliomera chipperfieldi Tripp 1967 [synonym], Heliomeroides akocephala Shaw 1968 [synonym]
Diagnosis
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