Aayemenaytcheia | |
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Artist's reconstruction | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | † Trilobita |
Order: | † Proetida |
Family: | † Proetidae |
Genus: | †
Aayemenaytcheia Lieberman, 1994 |
Species: | †A. paragranulata
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Binomial name | |
†Aayemenaytcheia paragranulata (Ormiston, 1967)
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Synonyms | |
Dechenella paragranulata Ormiston, 1967 |
Aayemenaytcheia paragranulata is a Middle Devonian proetid trilobite.
The genus name is the vocalisation of the acronym AMNH of the American Museum of Natural History and the suffix -ia (Aay-Em-En-Aytche-ia), as gratitude for funding Lieberman's research. The species epithet paragranulata refers to the fact that the species was first regarded as closely related to Dechenella granulata. [1]
A. paragranulata has been collected from the Devonian of Canada ( Emsian and Eifelian, Blue Fjord Formation, Bathurst Island, Nunavut). [1]
Aayemenaytcheia paragranulata was originally described as a species belonging to the genus Dechenella. Recent cladistic analysis however makes it likely the species is in fact the earliest branch of a clade that further includes Lacunoporaspis, Dechenella, Schizoproetus and Schizoproetoides. So in order to retain the monophyly of the genus Dechenella, a new genus was erected for D. paragranulata. [1]
Aayemenaytcheia | |
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Artist's reconstruction | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | † Trilobita |
Order: | † Proetida |
Family: | † Proetidae |
Genus: | †
Aayemenaytcheia Lieberman, 1994 |
Species: | †A. paragranulata
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Binomial name | |
†Aayemenaytcheia paragranulata (Ormiston, 1967)
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Synonyms | |
Dechenella paragranulata Ormiston, 1967 |
Aayemenaytcheia paragranulata is a Middle Devonian proetid trilobite.
The genus name is the vocalisation of the acronym AMNH of the American Museum of Natural History and the suffix -ia (Aay-Em-En-Aytche-ia), as gratitude for funding Lieberman's research. The species epithet paragranulata refers to the fact that the species was first regarded as closely related to Dechenella granulata. [1]
A. paragranulata has been collected from the Devonian of Canada ( Emsian and Eifelian, Blue Fjord Formation, Bathurst Island, Nunavut). [1]
Aayemenaytcheia paragranulata was originally described as a species belonging to the genus Dechenella. Recent cladistic analysis however makes it likely the species is in fact the earliest branch of a clade that further includes Lacunoporaspis, Dechenella, Schizoproetus and Schizoproetoides. So in order to retain the monophyly of the genus Dechenella, a new genus was erected for D. paragranulata. [1]