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Description

Leonaspis is a widespread genus of odontopleurid trilobite that lived from the Late Ordovician to the late Middle Devonian. Fossils of various species have been found on all continents except Antarctica.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3267063	https://www.gbif.org/species/3267063
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	19814	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=19814

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Lichida : Odontopleuridae : Leonaspis

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Odontopleurida : Odontopleuridae : Leonaspis

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	Odontopleurida	Whittington 1959
family	Odontopleuridae	Burmeister 1843
subfamily	Odontopleurinae	Burmeister 1843
genus	Leonaspis	Richter & Richter 1917

Scientific Name

Leonaspis Richter & Richter, 1917

Name Published In

Centralbl. Min. Geol. Pal., 1917: 465

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Leonaspis	genus	belongs to Odontopleuridae	stated with evidence	Whittington, 1956
Leonaspis	genus	belongs to Odontopleurinae	stated with evidence	Bruton, 1966
Leonaspis	genus	belongs to Odontopleurida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Leonaspis	genus	belongs to Odontopleuridae	stated without evidence	Jell and Adrain, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

466 - 461 Ma
Middle Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

388 - 383 Ma
Devonian

Environment

marine (based on Trilobita)

Motility

fast-moving (based on Trilobita)

Vision

well-developed (based on Odontopleuridae)

Diet

carnivore (based on Odontopleuridae)

Ontogeny

molting,addition of parts (based on Trilobita)

Ecospace Comments

BODY SIZE: Data from Harrington et al. (1959).

Taphonomy

major spines

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Acanthaloma angelini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acidaspis marklini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Calymene centrina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Leonaspis acarescola ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	441 Ma Silurian	441 Ma Silurian
Leonaspis angelini ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	441 Ma Silurian	431 Ma Silurian
Leonaspis centrina ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	458 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	443 Ma Silurian
Leonaspis clavatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	408 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	408 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Leonaspis crenata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	431 Ma Silurian	423 Ma Silurian
Leonaspis haddanei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	403 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Leonaspis hastata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Leonaspis jenkinsi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Leonaspis leonhardi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	431 Ma Silurian	423 Ma Silurian
Leonaspis lothiana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	439 Ma Silurian	439 Ma Silurian
Leonaspis marklini ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		6	445 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	431 Ma Silurian
Leonaspis muldensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	431 Ma Silurian	431 Ma Silurian
Leonaspis mutica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	428 Ma Silurian	428 Ma Silurian
Leonaspis olini ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	445 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Leonaspis parva species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Leonaspis rattei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	426 Ma Silurian	426 Ma Silurian
Leonaspis spinicurva ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	403 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	403 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Leonaspis strix species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Leonaspis varbolensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	443 Ma Silurian	441 Ma Silurian
Leonaspis wellingtonensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		14	411 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	411 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Leonaspis williamsi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Odontopleura crenata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Odontopleura mutica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Acantaloma Conrad, 1840	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Lichida : Odontopleuridae : *Acantaloma*
Acanthaloma Conrad, 1840	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Lichida : Odontopleuridae : *Acanthaloma*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1840	Acanthaloma Conrad
1917	Leonaspis Richter and Richter
1956	Leonaspis Whittington p. 505
1966	Leonaspis Bruton
1967	Leonaspis Bruton
2002	Leonaspis Jell and Adrain p. 397
2002	Acantaloma Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Leonaspis Sepkoski, Jr.
2003	Acanthalomina Kiessling

References

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

Whittington H. B. (1956) Type and other species of Odontopleuridae (Trilobita), Journal of Paleontology 30 3, 504-520

Bruton D. L. (1966) A Revision of the Swedish Ordovician Odontopleuridae (Trilobita), Publications from the Palaeontological Institution of the University of Uppsala 67

Bruton D. L. (1967) Silurian Odontopleurid Trilobites from Sweden, Estonia, and Latvia, Palaeontology 10 2, 214-244

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

Kiessling W. (2003) Personal data

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

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 498 Validation under the Plenary Powers of the specific name tuberculatus, as published by Hall (J. W.) in 1859 in the combination Acidaspis tuberculatus, and use of the same Powers to provide an assured basis for the use of the generic name Leonaspis Richter (R.) & Richter (E.), 1917 (class Trilobita).Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 17(20), 361-376 (1957) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

Centralbl. Min. Palaeont. Geol., 1917 - 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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