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Nevadiidae ✝

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Eofallotaspis sp.

Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA

Eofallotaspis sp.

Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA

Eofallotaspis sp.

Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3267017	https://www.gbif.org/species/3267017
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	151322	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=151322

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Redlichiida : Nevadiidae

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	Redlichiida	Richter 1932
suborder	Olenellina	Walcott 1890
superfamily	Fallotaspidoidea	Hupe 1953
family	Nevadiidae	Hupé 1953

Scientific Name

Nevadiidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Nevadiidae	family	belongs to Fallotaspidoidea	stated with evidence	Palmer and Repina, 1993
Nevadiidae	family	belongs to Redlichiida	stated with evidence	Whittington et al., 1997
Nevadiidae	family	belongs to Nevadioidea	stated with evidence	Lieberman, 1998
Nevadiidae	family	belongs to Nevadioidea	stated without evidence	McMenamin, 2001
Nevadiidae	family	belongs to Olenellina	stated without evidence	Babcock and Peel, 2007
Nevadiidae	family	belongs to Fallotaspidoidea	stated with evidence	Adrain, 2011
Nevadiidae	family	belongs to Fallotaspidoidea	stated without evidence	Bushuev et al., 2014

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

541 - 520 Ma
Cambrian

Last Recorded Appearance

516 - 513 Ma
Cambrian

Environment

marine (based on Trilobita)

Motility

fast-moving (based on Redlichiida)

Vision

well-developed

Diet

deposit feeder (based on Redlichiida)

Ontogeny

molting,addition of parts (based on Trilobita)

Taphonomy

low Mg calcite, chitin (based on Trilobita)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

L. E. Babcock and J. S. Peel. 2007. Palaeobiology, taphonomy and stratigraphic significance of the trilobite Buenellus from the Sirius Passet Biota, Cambrian of North Greenland. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 34:401-418

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Bondonella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	520 Ma Cambrian	520 Ma Cambrian
Buenellus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	530 Ma Cambrian	520 Ma Cambrian
Choubertella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Daguinaspis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	520 Ma Cambrian	520 Ma Cambrian
Nevadella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	34	541 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Nevadia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	25	541 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Pseudojudomia ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Sanctaspis ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	530 Ma Cambrian	530 Ma Cambrian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1953	Nevadiidae Hupé
1993	Nevadiidae Palmer and Repina p. 30
1997	Nevadiidae Whittington et al. p. 426
1998	Nevadiidae Lieberman p. 68
2001	Nevadiidae McMenamin p. 115
2007	Nevadiidae Babcock and Peel p. 411
2011	Nevadiidae Adrain p. 104
2014	Nevadiidae Bushuev et al. p. 357

References

Babcock L. E., Peel J. S. (2007) Palaeobiology, taphonomy and stratigraphic significance of the trilobite Buenellus from the Sirius Passet Biota, Cambrian of North Greenland, Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 34, 401-418

Palmer A. R., Repina L. N. (1993) Through a glass darkly: taxonomy, phylogeny, and biostratigraphy of the Olenellina, The University Of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 3, 1-35 doi:10.17161/PCNS.1808.3760

Whittington H. B., Chatterton B. D. E., et al (1997) Trilobita. Introduction, Order Agnostina, Order Redlichiida. Volume 1, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology O, 1-530

Lieberman B. S. (1998) Cladistic analysis of the Early Cambrian olenelloid trilobites, Journal of Paleontology 72 1, 59-78

McMenamin M. A. S. (2001) New trilobites from the Campito Formation of the White-Inyo Mountains, Paleontology Sonora: Lipalian and Cambrian, 114-116

Adrain J. M. (2011) Class Trilobita Walch, 1771, Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness 3148, 104-109

Bushuev E., Goryaeva E., et al (2014) New discoveries of the oldest trilobites Profallotaspis and Nevadella in the northeastern Siberian Platform, Russia, Bulletin of Geosciences 89 2, 347-364 doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1406

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - 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

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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