Wingertshellicus backesi
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Taxonavigation
[edit]Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: incertae sedis
Genus: †Wingertshellicus
Species: †Wingertshellicus backesi
Name
[edit]Wingertshellicus backesi Briggs & Bartels, 2001: 284
Holotype: [Naturhistorisches Museum Mainz, Landessammlung für Naturkunde] NM PWL 1993/ 354-LS.
Type locality: Lower Devonian, Lower Emsian, Wingertshell Clayey Slate Member, Hunsrück Slate; Schmiedeberg roof slate quarry, Bundenbach, Germany.
Synonyms
[edit]- Devonohexapodus bocksbergensis Haas, Waloszek & Hartenberger, 2003: 42
- Holotype: SMNS64880.
- Type locality: Found in a piece of rock (“lesestein”) collected from a slate dump at the Eschenbach-Bocksberg quarry, “Eschenbacher Zug” stratum.
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Briggs, D.E.G. & Bartels, C. 2001. New arthropods from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Lower Emsian, Rhenish Massif, western Germany). Palaeontology 44: 275–303. DOI: 10.1111/1475-4983.00180
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- Haas, F., Waloszek, D. & Hartenberger, R. 2003. Devonohexapodus bocksbergensis, a new marine hexapod from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slates, and the origin of Atelocerata and Hexapoda. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 3: 39–54. DOI: 10.1078/1439-6092-00057
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- Kühl, G. & Rust, J. 2009. Devonohexapodus bocksbergensis is a synonym of Wingertshellicus backesi (Euarthropoda) – no evidence for marine hexapods living in the Devonian Hunsrück Sea. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 9: 215–231. DOI: 10.1016/j.ode.2009.03.002
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