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Macrobole hercules

Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae

Taxonomy
Cyrtosymbole (Macrobole) hercules was named by Richter and Richter (1951).

It was recombined as Semiproetus (Macrobole) hercules by Feist (1992); it was recombined as Phillibole hercules by Whiteley (2004); it was recombined as Macrobole hercules by Lemke (2020).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1951Cyrtosymbole (Macrobole) hercules Richter and Richter
1992Semiproetus (Macrobole) hercules Feist p. 31
2004Phillibole hercules Whiteley
2020Macrobole hercules Lemke

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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
genusMacroboleReed 1943
specieshercules()

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.

Macrobole hercules Richter and Richter 1951
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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, Whittington et al. 1997, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: Hastarian or 358.90000 to 353.80000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Hastarian358.9 - 353.8United Kingdom (England) Phillibole hercules (229584 229586)