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Chlupaciparia (Australoparia)

Trilobita - Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2013Chlupaciparia (Australoparia) Feist and McNamara p. 250

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderProetidaFortey and Owens 1975
superfamilyProetoideaHawle and Corda 1847
familyTropidocoryphidaePribyl 1946
subfamilyTropidocoryphinaePribyl 1946
genusChlupaciparia
subgenusAustraloparia

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.

Subg. †Chlupaciparia (Australoparia) Feist and McNamara 2013
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Chlupaciparia (Australoparia) australis Feist and McNamara 2013
Chlupaciparia (Australoparia) lata Feist and McNamara 2013
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
R. Feist and K. J. McNamara 2013Cephalon with bluntly pointed anterior out- line; anterolateral border furrow narrow and deep, pitted with ovoid impressions that are largest and deepest cen- trally, interrupted by swollen bridges of genal caeca; pre- glabellar field long; palpebral suture with slight outward curvature; eye lobe with globular visual surface carrying less than 50 large, protruding lenses. Pygidium with effaced anterior pleural segments; predominance of third anterior pleural bands emerging abaxially.
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
Created: 2012-08-27 22:22:34
Modified: 2012-08-27 07:22:49
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Fortey and Owens 1999

Age range: Late/Upper Frasnian or 379.50000 to 376.10000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Frasnian379.5 - 376.1Australia (Western Australia) Chlupaciparia australis (216427) Chlupaciparia lata (223180 223204)