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Kingstonia ✝

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Description

Kingstonia is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived from 501 to 490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3266950	https://www.gbif.org/species/3266950
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	20619	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=20619

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Ptychopariida : Kingstoniidae : Kingstonia

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
subclass	Libristoma	Fortey 1990
order	Ptychopariida	Swinnerton 1915
family	Kingstoniidae	Kobayashi 1935
genus	Kingstonia	Walcott 1924

Scientific Name

Kingstonia Walcott, 1924

Name Published In

Smithson. Misc. Coll., 75

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Kingstonia	genus	belongs to Corynexochidae	stated without evidence	Resser, 1936
Kingstonia	genus	belongs to Kingstoniidae	stated with evidence	Westrop, 1992
Kingstonia	genus	belongs to Kingstoniidae	stated without evidence	Jell and Adrain, 2002
Kingstonia	genus	belongs to Ptychopariida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

513 - 505 Ma
Cambrian

Last Recorded Appearance

485 - 479 Ma
Paleozoic

Environment

marine (based on Trilobita)

Motility

fast-moving (based on Trilobita)

Vision

well-developed (based on Kingstoniidae)

Diet

carnivore (based on Trilobita)

Ontogeny

molting,addition of parts (based on Trilobita)

Taphonomy

low Mg calcite, chitin (based on Trilobita)

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/Kingstonia

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Kingstonia alabamensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia alia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia apion ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	501 Ma Cambrian	501 Ma Cambrian
Kingstonia ara ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	501 Ma Cambrian	501 Ma Cambrian
Kingstonia bosworthensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia cheilusis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia clevelandensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia electra species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia gaspensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia glabra species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia globosa ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Kingstonia gregalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia inflata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia kindlei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia loperi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia montanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia mucro species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia neimonggolensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	501 Ma Cambrian	501 Ma Cambrian
Kingstonia peltata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	513 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Kingstonia plena species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia pontotocensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia promissa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia quebecensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia robsonensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia rotundata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia shipleyensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia spicata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia sullivanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia texana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia trapezoidea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia tumida species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia ulrichi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia vagrans ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	501 Ma Cambrian	501 Ma Cambrian
Kingstonia virginica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia vulgata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kingstonia walcotti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1924	Kingstonia Walcott
1936	Kingstonia Resser p. 24
1992	Kingstonia Westrop
2002	Kingstonia Jell and Adrain p. 392
2002	Kingstonia Sepkoski, Jr.

References

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

Resser C. E. (1936) Second contribution to nomenclature of Cambrian trilobites, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 95 4, 1-29

Westrop S.R. (1992) Upper Cambrian (Marjuman-Steptoean) trilobites from the Port Au Port Group, western Newfoundland, Journal of Paleontology 66 2, 228-255

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

GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Smithson. Misc. Coll., 75 - 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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