ELLIPSOCEPHALOIDEA Matthew, 1887, 1990

Żylińska, Anna, Kin, Adrian & Nowicki, Jakub, 2013, Application of morphometric techniques for taxonomic revision of Berabichia oratrix (Orłowski, 1985) (Trilobita, Cambrian) from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland, Geodiversitas 35 (3), pp. 505-528 : 519

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5252/g2013n3a1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4818276
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FF2D87B8-FFEA-FF85-FF52-71FAFF780C73
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scientific name	ELLIPSOCEPHALOIDEA Matthew, 1887
status

Treatment

Superfamily ELLIPSOCEPHALOIDEA Matthew, 1887

REMARKS

Assignment of the Ellipsocephaloidea to a higher level systematic rank is problematical. Many authors include them in the Redlichiina ( Geyer 1990; Kaesler 1997: 429; Adrain 2011), whereas according to Fortey (1990) at least some ellipsocephaloids should be grouped among the Ptychopariina Richter, 1932 (see also Kaesler 1997: 302). Recently, Adrain (2011) suggested to abandon the suborder Ptychopariina Richter, 1932 and the order Ptychopariida Swinnerton, 1915 .

References

ADRAIN J. M. 2011. - Class Trilobita Walch, 1771, in ZHANG Z. - Q. (ed.), Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 104 - 109.

FORTEY R. A. 1990. - Ontogeny, hypostome attachment and trilobite classification. Palaeontology 33: 529 - 576.

GEYER G. 1990. - Die marokkanischen Ellipsocephalidae (Trilobita: Redlichiida). Beringeria 3: 3 - 363.

KAESLER R. L. (ed.) 1997. - Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part O, Arthropoda 1, Trilobita, Revised. Geological Society of America, Boulder and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence: i-xxiv, 1 - 530.