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Cryptolithus tessellatus

Trilobita - Trinucleida - Trinucleidae

Taxonomy
Cryptolithus tesselatus was named by Green (1832).

It was corrected as Cryptolithus tessellatus by Shaw and Lesperance (1994).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1832Cryptolithus tesselatus Green
1879Trinucleus bellulus Ulrich pp. 99-100 figs. Pl. 4, fig. 15
1924Cryptolithus lorettensis Foerste
1968Cryptolithus tesselata Fox
1994Cryptolithus bellulus Chatterton et al. p. 529 fig. 6.5
1994Cryptolithus tessellatus Shaw and Lesperance pp. 812 - 813 figs. Figures 4, 5.1-5.4, 5.6-5.10, 5.12, 5.13, 6

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
subclassLibristoma
orderTrinucleida(Swinnerton 1915)
familyTrinucleidaeHawle and Corda 1847
genusCryptolithusGreen 1832
speciestessellatus(Green 1832)

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.

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Invalid names: Cryptolithus lorettensis Foerste 1924 [synonym], Trinucleus bellulus Ulrich 1879 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available