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Taklamakania xinjiangensis

Trilobita - Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae

Taxonomy
Xinjiangia xinjiangensis was named by Zhang (1981). Its type specimen is GSXU-XTR 305, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Nanshanaspis xinjiangensis by Zhang in Zhou (1995); it was recombined as Taklamakania xinjiangensis by Zhang (1988) and Zhou et al. (2014).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1981Xinjiangia xinjiangensis Zhang
1988Taklamakania xinjiangensis Zhang
1995Nanshanaspis xinjiangensis Zhang in Zhou
2014Taklamakania xinjiangensis Zhou et al. p. 96

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
subclassLibristoma
orderTrinucleida(Swinnerton 1915)
familyRaphiophoridaeAngelin 1854
genusTaklamakaniaZhang 1980
speciesxinjiangensis(Zhang 1981)

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.

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Diagnosis
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