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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

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
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: low Mg calcitec
Composition 2: chitinc
Ontogeny: molting, addition of partsc
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: nektobenthico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedf
Created: 2009-12-14 23:37:50
Modified: 2009-12-15 01:37:50
Source: f = family, o = order, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Whittington et al. 1997, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Aeronian to the top of the Telychian or 440.80000 to 433.40000 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Aeronian440.8 - 438.5Canada (Quebec) Failleana wangi (184647 184996 187772 type locality: 187871)
Telychian438.5 - 433.4Canada (Quebec) Failleana wangi (184641 185535 185538 186055 186077 187872)