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Remopleurides simulus

Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae

Taxonomy
Remopleurides simulus was named by Whittington (1959) [Paratypes: USNM 137688a-c]. Its type specimen is USNM 137687, 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.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1959Remopleurides simulus Whittington p. 426 figs. Pl. 17, figs. 1, 2, 4, 5
1964Remopleurides similus Ross, Jr. and Longwell

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
subclassLibristoma
orderAsaphidaSalter 1864
superfamilyAsaphoideaSalter 1864
familyRemopleurididaeHawle and Corda 1847
subfamilyRemopleuridinaeHawle and Corda 1847
genusRemopleuridesPortlock 1843
speciessimulus

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.

Remopleurides simulus Whittington 1959
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Diagnosis
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