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Pterygometopus

Trilobita - Phacopida - Pterygometopidae

Taxonomy
Pterygometopus was named by Schmidt (1881). Its type is Calymene sclerops.

It was reranked as Dalmanites (Pterygometopus) by Schuchert (1900).

It was assigned to Dalmanites by Schuchert (1900); to Pterygometopinae by Warburg (1925) and Jaanusson and Ramsköld (1993); to Phacopida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Pterygometopidae by Jell and Adrain (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1881Pterygometopus Schmidt
1900Dalmanites (Pterygometopus) Schuchert
1925Pterygometopus Warburg
1993Pterygometopus Jaanusson and Ramsköld
2002Pterygometopus Jell and Adrain p. 436
2002Pterygometopus Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderPhacopidaSalter 1864
suborderPhacopinaStruve 1959
superfamilyPhacopoideaHupe 1953
familyPterygometopidaeReed 1905
subfamilyPterygometopinaeReed 1905
genusPterygometopusSchmidt 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. †Pterygometopus Schmidt 1881
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Pterygometopus recurvus Brogger 1887
Pterygometopus schmidti Warburg 1925
Pterygometopus sclerops Dalman 1827
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available