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Tafilaltaspis rufa

Trilobita - Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae

Taxonomy
Tafilaltaspis rufa was named by van Viersen and Lerouge (2020). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Crinoidal Limestone Lenses in Marl, Emsian/Eifelian Boundary, Hamar Laghdad, which is in an Emsian/Eifelian marine marl/limestone in Morocco.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2020Tafilaltaspis rufa van Viersen and Lerouge

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderProetidaFortey and Owens 1975
superfamilyProetoideaHawle and Corda 1847
familyTropidocoryphidaePribyl 1946
subfamilyEremiproetinaeAlberti 1967
genusTafilaltaspis()
speciesrufa

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.

†Tafilaltaspis rufa van Viersen and Lerouge 2020
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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: fast-movingc
Life habit: low-level epifaunalc
Diet: deposit feedero
Created: 2012-08-27 22:22:34
Modified: 2012-08-27 07:22:49
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Fortey and Owens 1999, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Emsian to the top of the Eifelian or 402.50000 to 387.70000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Emsian - Eifelian402.5 - 387.7Morocco Tafilaltaspis rufa (type locality: 27114)