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Glaphurus pustulatus

Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Raymondinidae

Taxonomy
Arionellus pustulatus was named by Walcott (1877) [Lectotype designated by Shaw (1968).]. Its type specimen is MCZ 7566B (lectotype), a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. It is the type species of Glaphurus, Acidaspis (Glaphurus).

It was recombined as Acidaspis (Glaphurus) pustulatus by Raymond (1905); it was recombined as Glaphurus pustulatus by Jell and Adrain (2002).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
G. altaicus, G. coronatus, G. crinitus

Synonyms
  • Sao lamottensis was named by Whitfield (1886).

    It was synonymized subjectively with Glaphurus pustulatus by Raymond (1905).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1877Arionellus pustulatus Walcott p. 15 figs. no. fig.
1886Sao lamottensis Whitfield p. 334 figs. Pl. 33, Figs. 9-11
1905Acidaspis (Glaphurus) pustulatus Raymond p. 357
2002Glaphurus pustulatus Jell and Adrain p. 378

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
subclassLibristoma
orderPtychopariidaSwinnerton 1915
familyRaymondinidaeClark 1924
genusGlaphurusRaymond 1905
speciespustulatus(Walcott 1877)

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.

†Glaphurus pustulatus Walcott 1877
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Invalid names: Sao lamottensis Whitfield 1886 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available