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Lonchodomas clavulus

Trilobita - Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae

Taxonomy
Lonchodomas clavulus was named by Whittington (1965). Its type specimen is GSC 18413, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Table Point, "Middle Table Head", 17 feet, which is in a Chazyan slope limestone in the Table Cove Formation of Canada.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
L. laevisculus, L. variabile

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1965Lonchodomas clavulus Whittington p. 316 figs. Pl. 11, figs. 1, 2, 5, 13

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
subclassLibristoma
orderTrinucleida(Swinnerton 1915)
familyRaphiophoridaeAngelin 1854
genusLonchodomasAngelin 1854
speciesclavulus

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.

†Lonchodomas clavulus Whittington 1965
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available