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Menoparia elegans

Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae

Taxonomy
Menoparia elegans was named by Dean (1989). Its type specimen is GSC 62312, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is GSC locality 92276, Outram Fm., Biozone G, Alberta, Canada - Dean 1989, which is in a Tremadoc transition zone/lower shoreface siltstone in the Outram Formation of Canada.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1989Menoparia elegans Dean p. 35 figs. PL. 25,f igs. 1-3, 7, 11

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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
genusMenoparia
specieselegans

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.

†Menoparia elegans Dean 1989
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Diagnosis
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