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Podowrinella straitonensis

Trilobita - Phacopida - Pterygometopidae

Taxonomy
Phacops straitonensis was named by Lamont (1965). Its type specimen is BU 1900, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. It is the type species of Podowrinella.

It was recombined as Podowrinella straitonensis by Clarkson et al. (1977).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1965Phacops straitonensis Lamont p. 132 figs. Pl. 20, fig. 1
1977Podowrinella straitonensis Clarkson et al. p. 134

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderPhacopidaSalter 1864
suborderPhacopinaStruve 1959
superfamilyPhacopoideaHupe 1953
familyPterygometopidaeReed 1905
subfamilyEomonorachinaePillet 1954
genusPodowrinella
speciesstraitonensis(Lamont 1965)

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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Diagnosis
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