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Nektaspida ✝
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Rank | order (PBDB) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Nektaspida | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Opinions (PBDB) |
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Status (PBDB) | extinct | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 17 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 520 - 516 Ma Cambrian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Recorded Appearance | 445 - 443 Ma Paleozoic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Motility | actively mobile (based on Arthropoda) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vision | blind (based on Nektaspida) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | G. E. Budd. 1999. A nektaspid arthropod from the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet Fauna, with a description of retrodeformation based on functional morphology. Palaeontology 42:99-122 |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Emucarididae ✝ family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 2 | 516 Ma Cambrian | 516 Ma Cambrian | |
Liwiidae ✝ family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 4 | 520 Ma Cambrian | 445 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician | |
Naraoia ✝ genus | listed (PBDB) | 133 | 520 Ma Cambrian | 513 Ma Cambrian |
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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1920 | Nektaspida Raymond |
1999 | Nektaspida Budd |
References
Budd G. E. (1999) A nektaspid arthropod from the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet Fauna, with a description of retrodeformation based on functional morphology, Palaeontology 42, 99-122 |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!