Aglaspidida

Beckwithia typa

Taxonavigation

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: †Artiopoda
Superclassis: †Vicissicaudata
Ordo: †Aglaspidida
Familiae (2) (sensu Lerosey-Aubril, Zhu & Ortega-Hernández, 2017): †Aglaspididae – †Tremaglaspididae

Genera unassigned to family (sensu Lerosey-Aubril, Zhu & Ortega-Hernández, 2017): †Australaglaspis – †Beckwithia

Genera tentatively included (sensu Lerosey-Aubril, Zhu & Ortega-Hernández, 2017): †Angarocaris – †Chacharejocaris – †Girardevia – †Obrutschewia – †Rozhkovocaris

Not used?: †Beckwithiidae

Not placed in Aglaspidida: †Lemoneitidae – †Paleomeridae – †Strabopidae

Name

Aglaspidida Walcott, 1912

Synonymy

• Aglaspina Walcott, 1912: 199
• Aglaspida: Raasch, 1939
• Aglaspidida: Bergström, 1971

References

Primary references

• Walcott, C.D. 1912. Middle Cambrian Branchiopoda, Malacostraca, Trilobita and Merostomata. In: Cambrian geology and paleontology. II. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 57: 145–228, pls. 24–34, text figs. 8–10. BHL.

Additional references

• Lerosey-Aubril, R., Zhu, X. & Ortega-Hernández, J. 2017. The Vicissicaudata revisited – insights from a new aglaspidid arthropod with caudal appendages from the Furongian of China. Scientific Reports 7: 11117. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-11610-5 . Reference page. 
• Ortega-Hernández, J., Legg, D.A. & Braddy, S.J. 2012 (Online) 2013 (Print). The phylogeny of aglaspidid arthropods and the internal relationships within Artiopoda. Cladistics 29(1): 15–45. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00413.x . Reference page. 
• Ortega-Hernández, J., Van Roy, P., Lerosey-Aubril, R. 2015 (Online) 2016 (Print). A new aglaspidid euarthropod with a six-segmented trunk from the Lower Ordovician Fezouata Konservat-Lagerstätte, Morocco. Geological Magazine 153(3): 524–536. DOI: 10.1017/S0016756815000710 . ResearchGate . Reference page.  [discusses history of name and its authorship; recommends use of "Aglaspidida Walcott, 1912" and discarding Subclass Aglaspidida and Suborder Aglaspina]

Vernacular names

日本語: 光楯類

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