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Yanhaoia huayinshanensis

Trilobita - Phacopida - Pterygometopidae

Taxonomy
Pterygometopus huayinshanensis was named by Lu (1975). Its type specimen is NI 16991, a cephalon/head, and it is a 3D body fossil. It is the type species of Yanhaoia.

It was recombined as Yanhaoia huayinshanensis by Zhou et al. (1998).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1975Pterygometopus huayinshanensis Lu p. 728
1998Yanhaoia huayinshanensis Zhou et al. p. 727

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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
subfamilyPterygometopinaeReed 1905
genusYanhaoia
specieshuayinshanensis(Lu 1975)

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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