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Gerastos cuvieri

Trilobita - Proetida - Proetidae

Taxonomy
Proetus cuvieri was named by Steininger (1831).

It was recombined as Proetus (Gerastos) cuvieri by Goldfuss (1843) and Owens (1973); it was recombined as Gerastos cuvieri by Lieberman (1994), Basse (1996), Magrean (2007) and van Viersen (2021).

Subspecies
Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1831Proetus cuvieri Steininger p. 355 figs. Plate XXI, Fig. 6
1843Proetus (Gerastos) cuvieri Goldfuss
1967Proetus cuvieri Whittington and Campbell p. 457 figs. pl. 3, figs. 1-3
1973Proetus (Gerastos) cuvieri Owens pp. 9-10 figs. text-fig. 3a, b
1994Gerastos cuvieri Lieberman pp. 24 - 26 figs. 7.6-7.12
1996Gerastos cuvieri Basse pp. 139 - 140 figs. pl. 6 f. 3-6; pl. 8 f. 5
2007Gerastos cuvieri Magrean p. 33
2021Gerastos cuvieri van Viersen p. 205 figs. D, 7B-D, ,11A-F, H

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderProetidaFortey and Owens 1975
superfamilyProetoideaHawle and Corda 1847
familyProetidaeSalter 1864
subfamilyProetinaeSalter 1864
genusGerastos(Goldfuss 1843)
speciescuvieri()

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.

Gerastos cuvieri Steininger 1831
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Diagnosis
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