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Carolinites genacinaca

Trilobita - Proetida - Telephinidae

Taxonomy
Carolinites genacinaca was named by Ross (1951) [Paratypes: YPM 18080, 18082-4]. Its type specimen is YPM 18081, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Locality 8, Clarkston Mountains, Zone "J", which is in a Blackhillsian shallow subtidal limestone in the Garden City Formation of Utah.

It was synonymized subjectively with Carolinites bulbosus by Henderson (1983).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1951Carolinites genacinaca Ross p. 84 figs. Pl. 18, figs. 29, 33, 34
1999Carolinites genacinaca McCormick and Fortey pp. 204 - 215 figs. 3.1-6
2006Carolinites genacinaca Laurie p. 332 fig. 32
2019Carolinites genacinaca Zhou and Zhou p. 158 fig. 7
2024Carolinites genacinaca Fortey et al. figs. FIgure 4

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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
familyTelephinidaeMarek 1952
genusCarolinitesKobayashi 1940
speciesgenacinaca

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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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available