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Peltabellia elegans

Trilobita - Proetida - Bathyuridae

Taxonomy
Peltabellia elegans was named by Fortey and Peel (1990). Its type specimen is MGUH 18.960, a pygidium, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 'Winterhouses' (GGU 206483), which is in a Tremadocian platform/shelf-margin reef lime mudstone in the Poulsen Cliff Formation of Greenland.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. willistoni

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1990Peltabellia elegans Fortey and Peel p. 22 figs. Figs. 6-7

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderProetidaFortey and Owens 1975
familyBathyuridaeWalcott 1886
subfamilyBathyurinaeWalcott 1886
genusPeltabellia
specieselegans

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.

†Peltabellia elegans Fortey and Peel 1990
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available