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Diacanthaspis secretus

Trilobita - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae

Taxonomy
Diacanthaspis secretus was named by Whittington (1956) [Paratypes: 116520a-d]. Its type specimen is USNM 116519, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Loc. 2. edge of quarry, just north of RR tracks ΒΌ mile west of Strasburg Junction, which is in an Ashbyan carbonate limestone in the Edinburg Formation of Virginia.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
D. biaculeatus, D. thorsteinssoni

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1956Diacanthaspis secretus Whittington p. 220 figs. Pl. 7, figs. 1, 3, 5, 11

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderOdontopleuridaWhittington 1959
familyOdontopleuridaeBurmeister 1843
subfamilyOdontopleurinaeBurmeister 1843
genusDiacanthaspis
speciessecretus

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.

†Diacanthaspis secretus Whittington 1956
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available