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Kainella eleutherolfi

Artiopoda - Asaphida - Remopleurididae

Taxonomy
Kainella eleutherolfi was named by Pratt (1988). Its type specimen is ROM 45748b, a pygidium, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Section 14, Flat River near Tungsten, which is in a Tremadoc marine siltstone/lime mudstone in the Rabbitkettle Formation of Canada.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1988Kainella eleutherolfi Pratt pp. 1602 - 1604 figs. 8A -8G, 9

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
classArtiopodaHou and Bergstrom
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
subclassLibristoma
orderAsaphidaSalter 1864
superfamilyAsaphoideaSalter 1864
familyRemopleurididaeHawle and Corda 1847
genusKainellaWalcott 1925
specieseleutherolfi

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.

Kainella eleutherolfi Pratt 1988
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
B. R. Pratt 1988A species of Kainella with moderately divergent facial suture. Lateral glabellar furrows absent. Row of pits located forward of anterior border furrow. Pygidium wide, bearing a single pair of backward-curving furrows and two pairs of spines.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: low Mg calcitec
Composition 2: chitinc
Ontogeny: molting, addition of partsc
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: actively mobilef
Life habit: nektobenthicf
Diet: carnivorec
Vision: well-developedf
Created: 2009-04-13 10:12:30
Modified: 2009-12-14 07:33:04
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Tremadoc or 486.40000 to 477.10000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Tremadoc486.4 - 477.1Canada (Northwest Territories) Kainella eleutherolfi (type locality: 192761)