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Description

Ceratarges was a genus of Lichidan Trilobite from the Middle to Late Devonian. It lived in what is now Jbel Issoumour in Morocco as a detritivore.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratarges, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3267057	https://www.gbif.org/species/3267057
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	19730	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=19730

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Lichida : Lichidae : Ceratarges

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
class	Trilobita	Walch 1771
order	Lichida	Moore 1959
family	Lichidae	Hawle and Corda 1847
subfamily	Trochurinae	Phleger 1936
genus	Ceratarges	Gürich 1901

Scientific Name

Ceratarges Gürich, 1901

Name Published In

N. Jahrb. Min. Geol. Palaeont., Beil. Bd., 14

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ceratarges	genus	belongs to Trochurinae	stated with evidence	Thomas and Holloway, 1988
Ceratarges	genus	belongs to Lichidae	stated with evidence	Basse, 1998
Ceratarges	genus	belongs to Lichida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Ceratarges	genus	belongs to Lichidae	stated without evidence	Jell and Adrain, 2002
Ceratarges	genus	belongs to Trochurinae	stated with evidence	Pollitt et al., 2005

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

409 - 403 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian

Last Recorded Appearance

393 - 388 Ma
Devonian

Environment

marine (based on Trilobita)

Motility

fast-moving (based on Trilobita)

Vision

well-developed (based on Lichidae)

Diet

carnivore (based on Lichida)

Ontogeny

molting,addition of parts (based on Trilobita)

Taphonomy

low Mg calcite, chitin (based on Trilobita)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

G. Gürich. 1901. Ueber eine neue Lichas-Art aus dem Devon von Neu-Sud-Wales und über de Gattung Lichas überhaupt. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 14:519-539

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratarges

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ceratarges aries ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Ceratarges armatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Ceratarges bergicus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Ceratarges berolinensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ceratarges cognatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Ceratarges koumalii ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Ceratarges ziregensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Arges Goldfuss, 1839	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Lichida : Lichidae : *Arges*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1839	Arges Goldfuss
1885	Lichas (Arges) Schmidt
1901	Lichas (Ceratarges) Gürich
1988	Ceratarges Thomas and Holloway p. 219
1998	Ceratarges Basse
2002	Ceratarges Jell and Adrain p. 356
2002	Ceratarges Sepkoski, Jr.
2005	Ceratarges Pollitt et al. p. 238

References

Gürich G. (1901) Ueber eine neue Lichas-Art aus dem Devon von Neu-Sud-Wales und über de Gattung Lichas überhaupt, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 14, 519-539

Schmidt F. Revision der Ostbaltischen Silurischen Trilobiten. Abtheilung II. Acidaspiden und Lichiden, Mémoires de 'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, VII Série 33 1, 1-127

Thomas A. T., Holloway D. J. (1988) Classification and phylogeny of the trilobite order Lichida, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B 321, 179-262

Basse M. (1998) Trilobiten aus mittlerem Devon des Rhenohercynikums: III. Proetida (3), Phacopida (2), Lichida (Lichoidea, Odontopleuroidea) und ergänzende Daten [Middle Devonian trilobites of the Rhenohercynian: III. Proetida (3), Phacopida (2), Lichida (Lichoidea, Odontopleuroidea), and additional data], Palaeontographica Abteilung A 249 1-6, 1-162

Jell P. A., Adrain J. M. (2002) Available generic names for trilobites, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 48 2, 331-553

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Pollitt J. R., Fortey R. A., et al (2005) Systematics of the trilobite families Lichidae Hawle & Corda, 1847 and Lichakephalidae Tripp, 1957: the application of Bayesian inference to morphological data, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 3 3, 225-241 doi:10.1017/S1477201905001604

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

extinct group - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

N. Jahrb. Min. Geol. Palaeont., Beil. Bd., 14 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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!

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