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Bathyuriscus ornatus

Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae

Taxonomy
Bathyuriscus ornatus was named by Walcott (1908). It is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is The Burgess Shale (skeletonized fauna), Stephen Fm., which is in a St Davids marine shale in the Stephen Formation of Canada.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
B. boscaputensis, B. concavus, B. elegans, B. formosus, B. politus, B. punctatus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1908Bathyuriscus ornatus Walcott p. 39 figs. Plate 1, Figures 1-3
1916Bathyuriscus ornatus Walcott p. 346 figs. Plate 46, figs. 4, 4a-b

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderCorynexochida
familyDolichometopidae
genusBathyuriscusMeek 1873
speciesornatus

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.

†Bathyuriscus ornatus Walcott 1908
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Diagnosis
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