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Achatella achates

Trilobita - Phacopida - Pterygometopidae

Taxonomy
Dalmanites achates was named by Billings (1860).

It was recombined as Pterygometopus achates by Foerste (1919); it was recombined as Achatella achates by Jaanusson and Ramsköld (1993) and Swisher et al. (2016).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1860Dalmanites achates Billings p. 63 fig. 9
1919Pterygometopus achates Foerste p. 397 figs. pl. 19, fig. 8
1947Pterygometopus billingsi Wilson p. 55 figs. pl. 10, figs. 4a-b
1993Achatella achates Jaanusson and Ramsköld
2016Achatella achates Swisher et al. pp. 65 - 73 fig. 3–5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
Life
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderPhacopidaSalter 1864
suborderPhacopinaStruve 1959
superfamilyPhacopoideaHupe 1953
familyPterygometopidaeReed 1905
subfamilyPterygometopinaeReed 1905
genusAchatellaDelo 1935
speciesachates()

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.

Achatella achates Billings 1860
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Invalid names: Pterygometopus billingsi Wilson 1947 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available