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Nieszkowskia

Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae

Taxonomy
Nieszkowskia was named by Schmidt (1881). Its type is Sphaerexochus cephaloceros.

It was reranked as Cheirurus (Nieszkowskia) by Schmidt (1881); it was reranked as Pseudosphaerexochus (Nieszkowskia) by Raymond (1905).

It was assigned to Cheirurus by Schmidt (1881); to Pseudosphaerexochus by Raymond (1905); to Acanthoparyphinae by Nikolaisen (1961) and Edgecombe et al. (1999); to Cheiruridae by Warburg (1925) and Jell and Adrain (2002); and to Phacopida by Sepkoski (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1881Nieszkowskia Schmidt
1881Cheirurus (Nieszkowskia) Schmidt pp. 179 - 180
1905Pseudosphaerexochus (Nieszkowskia) Raymond p. 371
1925Nieszkowskia Warburg
1961Nieszkowskia Nikolaisen
1999Nieszkowskia Edgecombe et al.
2002Nieszkowskia Jell and Adrain p. 411
2002Nieszkowskia Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderPhacopidaSalter 1864
suborderCheirurinaHarrington and Leanza 1957
familyCheiruridaeHawle and Corda 1847
subfamilyAcanthoparyphinae
genusNieszkowskiaSchmidt 1881

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. †Nieszkowskia Schmidt 1881
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Nieszkowskia cephaloceras Nieszkowski 1857
Nieszkowskia cephaloceros Nieszkowski 1857
Nieszkowskia excelsus Raymond 1925
Nieszkowskia jakei Edgecombe et al. 1999
Nieszkowskia norvegica Nikolaisen 1961
Nieszkowskia satyrus Billings 1865
Nieszkowskia tumida Angelin 1854
Nieszkowskia yongyii Edgecombe et al. 1999
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available