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Neogriffithides

Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae

Taxonomy

Neogriffithides was named by Tumanskaya (1935) [Sepkoski's age data: C Bash-u P Guad-u Sepkoski's reference number: 624,892]. Its type is Neogriffithides gemmellaroi.

It was assigned to Proetida by Sepkoski (2002); to Proetinae by Owens (2003); and to Bollandiinae by Flick and Shiino (2021).

Species

N. almensis, N. extremorientalis, N. gemmellaroi (type species), N. imbricatus, N. ismailensis, N. pecencis, N. pulchellus, Neoproetus (Siciliproetus) sicula

Synonyms

Neoproetus (Siciliproetus) was named by Kobayashi and Hamada (1980).

It was synonymized subjectively with Neogriffithides by Jell and Adrain (2002).

It was assigned to Neoproetus by Kobayashi and Hamada (1980).
Neoproetus (Paraproetus) was named by Kobayashi and Hamada (1979). Its type is Proetus girvanensis.

It was replaced with Neoproetus (Siciliproetus) by Kobayashi and Hamada (1980); it was replaced with Siciliproetus by Jell and Adrain (2002); it was reranked as Paraproetus by Sepkoski (2002) and Owens (2004).

It was assigned to Neoproetus by Kobayashi and Hamada (1979); to Proetida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Cornuproetinae by Owens (2004).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1935	Neogriffithides Tumanskaya p. 13
1979	Neoproetus (Paraproetus) Kobayashi and Hamada p. 11
1980	Neoproetus (Siciliproetus) Kobayashi and Hamada p. 254
2002	Neogriffithides Sepkoski
2002	Paraproetus Sepkoski
2003	Neogriffithides Owens p. 379
2004	Paraproetus Owens
2021	Neogriffithides Flick and Shiino pp. 108 - 109

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829

Rank	Name	Author
subphylum	Artiopoda	(Hou and Bergstrom)
class	Trilobita	Walch 1771
order	Proetida	Fortey and Owens 1975
superfamily	Proetoidea	Hawle and Corda 1847
family	Phillipsiidae	Oehlert 1886
subfamily	Bollandiinae	Hahn and Brauckmann 1988
genus	Neogriffithides

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.

G. †Neogriffithides Tumanskaya 1935

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†Neogriffithides almensis Tumanskaya 1935

†Neogriffithides extremorientalis Flick and Shiino 2021

†Neogriffithides gemmellaroi Tumanskaya 1935

†Neogriffithides imbricatus Kobayashi and Hamada 1980

†Neogriffithides ismailensis Tumanskaya 1935

†Neogriffithides pecencis Hahn et al. 1990

†Neogriffithides pulchellus Gemmellaro 1890

Invalid names: Siciliproetus Kobayashi and Hamada 1980 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

low Mg calcitec

Composition 2:

chitinc

Ontogeny:

molting, addition of partsc

Environment:

marinec

Locomotion:

fast-movingc

Life habit:

low-level epifaunalc

Diet:

deposit feedero

Vision:

well-developedf

Created:

2009-12-19 02:34:58

Modified:

2009-12-19 04:34:58

Source: f = family, o = order, c = class

References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Whittington et al. 1997, Fortey and Owens 1999

Age range: base of the Asselian to the top of the Wordian or 298.90000 to 264.28000 Ma

Collections (11 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Asselian	298.9 - 295.5	Slovenia	N. pecencis (109631)
Roadian	272.3 - 268.8	Ukraine	N. sp. (81419 81421) N. sp. 3, N. pulchella, N. gemmellaroi, N. almensis, N. ismailensis (119279)
Roadian - Capitanian	272.3 - 259.51	Japan	N. imbricatus (110415)
Wordian	266.9 - 264.28	Italy	Phillipsia sicula (108566 233340) Phillipsia sicula, Phillipsia pulchella (108673)
Wordian	266.9 - 264.28	Iran (Tehran)	N. sp. (43294)
Wordian	266.9 - 264.28	Japan	N. extremorientalis (224525 224526)