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Weania

Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae

Taxonomy
Weania was named by Campbell and Engel (1963) [Campbell in Campbell & Engel 1963. Sepkoski's age data: C Tour-l C Bash-u Sepkoski's reference number: 378,624,892]. Its type is Weania goldringi.

It was reranked as Archegonus (Weania) by Fey (1985).

It was assigned to Cyrtosymbolinae by Campbell and Engel (1963); to Archegonus by Fey (1985); to Proetidae by Jell and Adrain (2002); to Proetida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Weaniinae by Hahn et al. (2003) and Owens (2003).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1963Weania Campbell and Engel pp. 107-108
1985Archegonus (Weania) Fey
2002Weania Jell and Adrain
2002Weania Sepkoski
2003Weania Hahn et al. p. 50
2003Weania Owens p. 383

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderProetidaFortey and Owens 1975
superfamilyProetoideaHawle and Corda 1847
familyPhillipsiidaeOehlert 1886
subfamilyWeaniinaeOwens 1983
genusWeania

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. †Weania Campbell and Engel 1963
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Weania goldringi Campbell and Engel 1963
Weania insulana Flick and Shiino 2021
Weania neso Fey 1983
Weania praecox Brauckmann 1974
Weania semicircularis Engel and Morris 1996
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available