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Kainella eleutherolfi

Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae

Taxonomy
Kainella eleutherolfi was named by Pratt (1988). Its type specimen is ROM 45748b, a pygidium, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Section 14, Flat River near Tungsten, which is in a Tremadoc marine siltstone/lime mudstone in the Rabbitkettle Formation of Canada.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1988Kainella eleutherolfi Pratt pp. 1602 - 1604 figs. 8A -8G, 9

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
subclassLibristoma
orderAsaphidaSalter 1864
superfamilyAsaphoideaSalter 1864
familyRemopleurididaeHawle and Corda 1847
genusKainellaWalcott 1925
specieseleutherolfi

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.

Kainella eleutherolfi Pratt 1988
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
B. R. Pratt 1988A species of Kainella with moderately divergent facial suture. Lateral glabellar furrows absent. Row of pits located forward of anterior border furrow. Pygidium wide, bearing a single pair of backward-curving furrows and two pairs of spines.