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Xanionurus bispinosus

Trilobita - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae

Taxonomy
Xanionurus bispinosus was named by Chatterton (1971). Its type specimen is ANU 17851, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a cast. Its type locality is Chatterton Loc. A, Assemblage A, top of Receptaculites Lst, near Yass, NSW, which is in an Emsian marine lime mudstone/grainstone in the Taemas Formation of Australia.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
X. boucoti

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1971Xanionurus bispinosus Chatterton p. 56 figs. Pl. 13, fig. 10

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderOdontopleuridaWhittington 1959
familyOdontopleuridaeBurmeister 1843
subfamilyOdontopleurinaeBurmeister 1843
genusXanionurusRichter and Richter 1917
speciesbispinosus

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.

†Xanionurus bispinosus Chatterton 1971
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available