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Peltabellia peltabella

Trilobita - Proetida - Bathyuridae

Taxonomy
Jeffersonia peltabella was named by Ross (1951) [Paratypes: YPM 18053-5.]. Its type specimen is YPM 18056, a pygidium, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Locality 5, Hillyard's Canyon, Zone "G(2)e", lower, which is in a Tulean shallow subtidal limestone/conglomerate in the Garden City Formation of Idaho. It is the type species of Peltabellia.

It was recombined as Peltabellia peltabella by Whittington (1953) and Fortey and Bruton (2013).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. willistoni

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1953Peltabellia peltabella Whittington p. 662
2013Peltabellia peltabella Fortey and Bruton

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderProetidaFortey and Owens 1975
familyBathyuridaeWalcott 1886
subfamilyBathyurinaeWalcott 1886
genusPeltabellia
speciespeltabella()

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.

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