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Paladin bairdensis

Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae

Taxonomy
Proetus bairdensis was named by Wheeler (1937). Its type specimen is LSJU 777-a, an exoskeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is LSJU 1041, which is in a Moscovian marine shale in the Baird Formation of California.

It was recombined as Paladin bairdensis by Chamberlain (1969).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Proetus bairdensis Wheeler pp. 49 - 51 figs. Plate 6, figs. 1-3
1969Paladin bairdensis Chamberlain p. 53

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderProetidaFortey and Owens 1975
superfamilyProetoideaHawle and Corda 1847
familyPhillipsiidaeOehlert 1886
genusPaladin
speciesbairdensis()

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.

Paladin bairdensis Wheeler 1937
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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
Vision: well-developedf
Created: 2009-12-19 02:34:58
Modified: 2009-12-19 04:34:58
Source: f = family, o = order, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Fortey and Owens 1999, Whittington et al. 1997

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Mississippian to the top of the Moscovian or 330.90000 to 307.00000 Ma

Collections (11 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Mississippian330.9 - 323.2USA (California) Paladin bairdensis (143606 143607 143608 143609 143610 143613 143615 143621 143625)
Pennsylvanian323.2 - 298.9USA (California) Paladin bairdensis (143614)
Moscovian315.2 - 307.0USA (California) Proetus bairdensis (type locality: 207052)