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Failleana wangi

Trilobita - Corynexochida - Styginidae

Taxonomy
Failleana wangi was named by Chatterton and Ludvigsen (2004). Its type specimen is GSC 122160, a cephalon/head, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is A222, which is in an Aeronian open shallow subtidal shale/limestone in the Jupiter Formation of Canada.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
F. luerkouensis, F. maccallumi

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2004Failleana wangi Chatterton and Ludvigsen p. 20 figs. Plate 7, fig. 3,5,6,9

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderCorynexochida
familyStyginidaeVogdes 1890
genusFailleanaChatterton and Ludvigson 1976
specieswangi

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.

†Failleana wangi Chatterton and Ludvigsen 2004
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available