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Pagetia ✝

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Description

Pagetia is a genus of very small, agnostid trilobites, assigned to the family Eodiscidae, and that had a global distribution during the Middle Cambrian. The genus contains 55 currently recognized species, each with a limited spatial and temporal distribution.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagetia, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3266629	https://www.gbif.org/species/3266629
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	19287	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=19287

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Agnostida : Eodiscidae : Pagetia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Eodiscida : Eodiscidae : Pagetia

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	Eodiscida
family	Eodiscidae	Raymond 1913
genus	Pagetia	Walcott 1916

Scientific Name

Pagetia Walcott, 1916

Name Published In

Smithson. Misc. Coll., 64

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pagetia	genus	belongs to Pagetiidae	stated with evidence	Palmer and Gatehouse, 1972
Pagetia	genus	belongs to Eodiscidae	stated with evidence	Palmer and Halley, 1979
Pagetia	genus	belongs to Agnostida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Pagetia	genus	belongs to Eodiscidae	stated without evidence	Jell and Adrain, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

516 - 513 Ma
Cambrian

Last Recorded Appearance

501 - 485 Ma
Cambrian

Environment

marine (based on Trilobita)

Motility

fast-moving (based on Trilobita)

Vision

well-developed

Diet

carnivore (based on Trilobita)

Ontogeny

molting,addition of parts (based on Trilobita)

Taphonomy

minor spines

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagetia

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Pagetia arenosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pagetia bigranulosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pagetia billingsi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pagetia bootes ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	513 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Pagetia clytia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	516 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Pagetia clytioides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pagetia danzhaiensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	516 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Pagetia dayongensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	513 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Pagetia edsonensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pagetia ellsi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	516 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Pagetia erratica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pagetia fossula ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	516 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Pagetia huainanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pagetia jinnanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pagetia laevis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pagetia longispina ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	513 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Pagetia maladensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pagetia mucrogena ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	513 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Pagetia neimengguensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pagetia prindlei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pagetia quebecensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pagetia resseri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		11	513 Ma Cambrian	504 Ma Cambrian
Pagetia rugosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	516 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Pagetia stenoloma species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pagetia taijiangensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		31	516 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Pagetia walcotti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1916	Pagetia Walcott
1972	Pagetia Palmer and Gatehouse p. 10
1979	Pagetia Palmer and Halley p. 77
1997	Pagetia Whittington et al. p. 402
2002	Pagetia Jell and Adrain p. 416
2002	Pagetia Landing et al. p. 300
2002	Pagetia Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Palmer A. R., Gatehouse C. G. (1972) Early and Middle Cambrian Trilobites from Antarctica, Contributions to the geology of Antarctica

Palmer A. R., Halley R. B. (1979) Physical Stratigraphy and Trilobite Biostratigraphy of the Carrara Formation (Lower and Middle Cambrian) in the Southern Great Basin, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1047, 1-131

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

Jell P. A., Adrain J. M. (2002) Available generic names for trilobites, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 48 2, 331-553

Landing E., Geyer G., et al (2002) Latest Early Cambrian small shelly fossils, trilobites and Hatch Hill dysaerobic interval on the Québec contental slope, Journal of Paleontology 76 2, 287-305

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - 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

Smithson. Misc. Coll., 64 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Walcott, 1916 - 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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