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Kaskia nosoniensis

Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae

Taxonomy
Griffithides nosoniensis was named by Wheeler (1937). Its type specimen is LSJU 778, an exoskeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is LSJU-1034, Potter Creek, which is in a Roadian/Wordian deep-water shale in the Nosoni Formation of California.

It was recombined as Kaskia nosoniensis by Lemke (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Griffithides nosoniensis Wheeler pp. 51 - 52 figs. Plate 6, figs. 6 and 7
2020Kaskia nosoniensis 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
subfamilyDitomopyginaeHupe 1953
genusKaskia
speciesnosoniensis()

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.

†Kaskia nosoniensis 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, Whittington et al. 1997, Fortey and Owens 1999

Age range: base of the Roadian to the top of the Wordian or 272.30000 to 264.28000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Roadian - Wordian272.3 - 264.28USA (California) Griffithides nosoniensis (type locality: 105657)