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Balvibole kaufmanni

Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae

Taxonomy
Balvibole kaufmanni was named by Basse and Lemke (2020). Its type specimen is SMF 97170, a cephalon/head (cranidium & calcified exoskeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Oberrödinghausen 3. Way to the Borg hill, which is in a Famennian marine limestone in the Dasberger Formation of Germany.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2020Balvibole kaufmanni Basse and Lemke pp. 210 - 211 fig. 3A–G

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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
familyPhillipsiidaeOehlert 1886
subfamilyCyrtosymbolinaeHupé 1953
genusBalvibole
specieskaufmanni

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.

Balvibole kaufmanni Basse and Lemke 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
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, Whittington et al. 1997, Fortey and Owens 1999

Age range: Late/Upper Famennian or 364.70000 to 360.70000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Famennian364.7 - 360.7Germany Balvibole kaufmanni (172510 type locality: 229492)