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Kellibrooksia macrogaster

Malacostraca - Hoplostraca - Sairocarididae

Taxonomy
Kellibrooksia macrogaster was named by Schram (1973). It is not extant. Its type locality is Mazon Creek, Essex fauna, which is in a Moscovian deltaic mudstone/siderite in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois. It is the type species of Kellibrooksia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1973Kellibrooksia macrogaster Schram p. 80

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
RankNameAuthor
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—Hymenostraca(Rolfe 1969)
superclassMulticrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
classMalacostraca()
subclassPhyllocarida(Packard 1879)
orderHoplostraca
familySairocarididae
genusKellibrooksia
speciesmacrogaster

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: nektobenthico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2009-09-21 12:34:55
Modified: 2009-09-21 14:34:55
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Aberhan 1992, Bambach et al. 2007

Age range: Moscovian or 315.20000 to 307.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Moscovian315.2 - 307.0USA (Illinois) Kellibrooksia macrogaster (type locality: 230306)