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Phalangiotarbus subovalis

Arachnida - Phalangiotarbida - Architarbidae

Taxonomy
Architarbus subovalis was named by Woodward (1872). Its type specimen is TCD F103/SC (neotype) and is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Cornfield pit, south bank of river Calder, near Padiham, which is in a Westphalian A interdistributary bay shale in the Lower Coal Measures Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Phalangiotarbus.

It was recombined as Phalangiotarbus subovalis by Pocock (1911), Petrunkevitch (1949), Petrunkevitch (1953), Dunlop and Horrocks (1997) and Dunlop et al. (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1872Architarbus subovalis Woodward p. 387 figs. Pl 9, figs 1,1a,1b
1877Architarbus subovalis Haughton p. 222 fig. 1,2
1904Architarbus subovalis Fritsch p. 35 fig. 39
1911Phalangiotarbus subovalis Pocock p. 46 fig. 17
1949Phalangiotarbus subovalis Petrunkevitch p. 173
1953Phalangiotarbus subovalis Petrunkevitch p. 51
1997Phalangiotarbus subovalis Dunlop and Horrocks p. 378 fig. 1,2
2013Phalangiotarbus subovalis Dunlop et al. p. 48

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
subphylumChelicerataHeymons 1901
—EuchelicerataWeygoldt and Paulus 1979
RankNameAuthor
—Prosomapoda
—Planaterga
—Dekatriata
—SclerophorataKamenz et al. 2011
classArachnidaLamarck 1801
orderPhalangiotarbida()
familyArchitarbidae
genusPhalangiotarbus
speciessubovalis()

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.

†Phalangiotarbus subovalis Woodward 1872
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Grouping: solitaryc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 09:55:58
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:55:58
Source: c = class
Reference: Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Westphalian A or 318.70000 to 316.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Westphalian A318.7 - 316.9United Kingdom (Lancashire) Architarbus subovalis (153477 153487)