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Bonnia caperata

Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dorypygidae

Taxonomy
Bonnia caperata was named by Palmer (1964). Its type specimen is USNM 144283, a pygidium, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS 3748-CO, northeast of Gold Point, which is in a Dyeran carbonate sandstone/limestone in the Harkless Formation of Nevada.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
B. asiatica, B. crassa, B. preinflata, B. tensa, B. tenuis, B. venuata, B. venusta

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1964Bonnia caperata Palmer p. F5 figs. Pl. 2, fig. 16

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderCorynexochida
suborderCorynexochinaKobayashi 1935
familyDorypygidaeKobayashi 1935
genusBonnia()
speciescaperata

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.

†Bonnia caperata Palmer 1964
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available