Project 3234: M. J. Hopkins. 2019. Phylogenetic analysis and revision of the trilobite subfamily Balnibarbiinae (Olenidae). American Museum Novitates. 3928:1-20.
Specimen: † Cloacaspis tesselata (AMNH/FI:115819)
View: dorsal view of cranidium

Abstract

The Balnibarbiinae is one of eight subfamilies of the Olenidae, a diverse family of late Cambrian to Ordovician trilobites. Balnibarbiine species occur in a relatively continuous section of deeper-water sediments exposed along the northeastern coastline of Spitsbergen, Svalbard, as well as scattered deeper-water beds in central Nevada. Results of phylogenetic analyses of the subfamily using both parsimony and Bayesian methods are consistent with a previous hypothesis based on phyletic similarity and stratigraphic range. Cloacaspis Fortey, 1974, is supported as monophyletic, but the support for Balnibarbi Fortey, 1974, is weak, and the genus may be paraphyletic to Cloacaspis even with the reassignment of Balnibarbi ceryx Fortey, 1974, to Cloacaspis. New field collections and discovery of previously undescribed material in museum and survey collections provides the basis for emended descriptions of the genus Cloacaspis, as well as Cloacaspis tesselata Fortey and Droser, 1999, Cloacaspis ekphymosa Fortey, 1974, and Balnibarbi erugata Fortey, 1974, and expands the geographic range of the subfamily to Alaska.


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Article DOI: 10.1206/3928.1

Project DOI: 10.7934/P3234, http://dx.doi.org/10.7934/P3234
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  • Creation Date:
    26 July 2018
  • Publication Date:
    06 September 2019
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    • American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)



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    Taxonomic Overview for Matrix 'M25576' (13 Taxa)

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    [1] † Parabolinella prolata
    Taxon name last Modified on 09/10/19
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    [2] † Parabolinella tumifrons
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    [3] † Cloacaspis senilis
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    [4] † Cloacaspis tesselata
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    [5] † Cloacaspis ekphymosa
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    [6] † Cloacaspis dejecta
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    [7] † Balnibarbi ceryx ceryx
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    [8] † Balnibarbi ceryx anataphra
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    [9] † Balnibarbi pulvurea
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    [10] † Balnibarbi tholia
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    [11] † Balnibarni erugata
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    [12] † Balnibarbi sombrero
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    [13] † Balnibarbi scimitar
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