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Belinurus lacoei

Xiphosura - Xiphosurida - Belinuridae

Taxonomy
Bellinurus lacoei was named by Packard (1885). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Mazon Creek, USNM Lacoe Collection, which is in a Westphalian D interdistributary bay mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois.

It was recombined as Euproops lacoei by Raymond (1944); it was synonymized subjectively with Euproops danae by Babcock and Merriam (2000); it was recombined as Parabelinurus lacoei by Lamsdell (2020); it was recombined as Belinurus lacoei by Lamsdell (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1885Bellinurus lacoei Packard p. 292
1944Euproops lacoei Raymond p. 494
2020Parabelinurus lacoei Lamsdell p. 16
2022Belinurus lacoei Lamsdell

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
Deuteropoda
subphylumChelicerataHeymons 1901
RankNameAuthor
EuchelicerataWeygoldt and Paulus 1979
Prosomapoda
classXiphosura()
orderXiphosuridaLatreille 1802
suborderBelinurina
familyBelinuridae(Zittel and Eastman 1913)
genusBelinurus
specieslacoei()

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.

Belinurus lacoei Packard 1885
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Diagnosis
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