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Erratencrinurus uncatus

Trilobita - Phacopida - Encrinuridae

Taxonomy
Encrinuroides uncatus was named by Evitt and Tripp (1977). Its type specimen is USNM 217527, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. It is the type species of Prophysemataspis.

It was recombined as Physemataspis (Prophysemataspis) uncatus by Lespérance and Desbiens (1995); it was recombined as Prophysemataspis uncatus by Jell and Adrain (2002); it was recombined as Erratencrinurus uncatus by Moss and Westrop (2014).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1977Encrinuroides uncatus Evitt and Tripp p. 128 figs. 4A, 8, pl. 5-7
1990Encrinuroides uncatus Edgecombe and Chatterton pp. 823, Table 1
1995Physemataspis (Prophysemataspis) uncatus Lespérance and Desbiens pp. 11, Table 2
2002Prophysemataspis uncatus Jell and Adrain
2014Erratencrinurus uncatus Moss and Westrop pp. 1113, table 1

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderPhacopidaSalter 1864
suborderCheirurinaHarrington and Leanza 1957
familyEncrinuridaeAngelin 1854
subfamilyEncrinurinaeAngelin 1854
genusErratencrinurusKrueger 1971
speciesuncatus()

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.

Erratencrinurus uncatus Evitt and Tripp 1977
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available