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Calipernurus insolitus

Trilobita - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae

Taxonomy
Calipernurus insolitus was named by Whittington (1956) [Paratypes: USNM 124712a-d]. Its type specimen is USNM 124711, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Loc. 3. south side of road, 0.2 mile east of Strasburg Junction, which is in a Turinian carbonate limestone in the Edinburg Formation of Virginia. It is the type species of Calipernurus.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
C. immanis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1956Calipernurus insolitus Whittington p. 273 figs. Pl. 22, figs. 1-3, 6

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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
subfamilyApianurinae
genusCalipernurus
speciesinsolitus

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.

†Calipernurus insolitus Whittington 1956
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Diagnosis
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