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Pachyaspis gallagari

Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae

Taxonomy
Pachyaspis gallagari was named by Fritz (1968). Its type specimen is USNM 153603, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Pioche Shale, Bed 14, which is in a Delamaran carbonate shale/limestone in the Pioche Shale Formation of Nevada.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. typicalis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1968Pachyaspis gallagari Fritz p. 231 figs. Pl. 40, figs. 11-13
1979Pachyaspis gallagari Palmer and Halley p. 112 figs. Plate 15, figure 8

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
subclassLibristoma
orderPtychopariidaSwinnerton 1915
familyPtychopariidaeMatthew 1887
genusPachyaspisResser 1938
speciesgallagari

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.

†Pachyaspis gallagari Fritz 1968
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available