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Piltonia fryi

Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae

Taxonomy
Piltonia fryi was named by Goldring (1958). Its type specimen is GS 86984, a pygidium, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bed marked by Chonetes cf. buchiana, right bank, Avon Gorge, which is in a Hastarian carbonate limestone in the Palate Formation of the United Kingdom.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1958Piltonia fryi Goldring pp. 424 - 425 figs. Plate 43, figs. 17-20

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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
genusPiltoniaGoldring 1955
speciesfryi

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.

Piltonia fryi Goldring 1958
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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: Fortey and Owens 1999, Aberhan et al. 2004, Whittington et al. 1997

Age range: Hastarian or 358.90000 to 353.80000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Hastarian358.9 - 353.8Belgium Piltonia fryi (42846)
Hastarian358.9 - 353.8United Kingdom (England) Piltonia fryi (type locality: 229266 229267)