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Scharyia ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4637518	https://www.gbif.org/species/4637518
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	21360	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=21360

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Proetida : Brachymetopidae : Scharyia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Aulacopleurida : Brachymetopidae : Scharyia

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	Aulacopleurida	Adrain 2011
family	Brachymetopidae	Prantl and Pribyl 1951
subfamily	Scharyiinae	Osmolska 1957
genus	Scharyia	Pribyl 1946

Scientific Name

Scharyia Pribyl, 1946

Name Published In

Priroda (Brno), 38, (5-6)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Scharyia	genus	belongs to Scharyiinae	stated with evidence	Owens, 1974
Scharyia	genus	belongs to Scharyiinae	stated without evidence	Thomas and Owens, 1978
Scharyia	genus	belongs to Scharyiinae	stated with evidence	Owens and Hammann, 1990
Scharyia	genus	belongs to Scharyiidae	stated without evidence	Adrain et al., 1995
Scharyia	genus	belongs to Proetida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Scharyia	genus	belongs to Scharyiidae	stated without evidence	Jell and Adrain, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

461 - 458 Ma
Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

393 - 383 Ma
Devonian

Environment

marine (based on Trilobita)

Motility

fast-moving (based on Trilobita)

Vision

well-developed (based on Brachymetopidae)

Diet

carnivore (based on Trilobita)

Ontogeny

molting,addition of parts (based on Trilobita)

Ecospace Comments

BODY SIZE: Data from Harrington et al. (1959).

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Scharyia angusta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	419 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	419 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Scharyia brevispinosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	419 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	409 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Scharyia couviniana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Scharyia heothina ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	453 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	445 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Scharyia micropyga ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	433 Ma Silurian	426 Ma Silurian
Scharyia nympha ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	7	423 Ma Silurian	423 Ma Silurian
Scharyia siceripotrix ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	427 Ma Silurian	427 Ma Silurian
Scharyia tafilaltensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	403 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	403 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Scharyia vesca ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	411 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	411 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Scharyia yolkini ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1946	Scharyia Pribyl
1974	Scharyia Owens
1978	Scharyia Owens
1978	Scharyia Thomas and Owens p. 75
1990	Scharyia Owens and Hammann
1995	Scharyia Adrain et al.
2002	Scharyia Jell and Adrain p. 442
2002	Scharyia Sepkoski, Jr.

References

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

Owens R. M. (1974) The Affinities of the Trilobite Genus Scharyia, with a Description of two new species, Palaeontology 17 3, 685-697

Owens R. M. (1978) The trilobite genera Panarchaeogonus Opik, Isbergia Warburg and Cyamops gen. nov. from the Ordovician of Balto-Scandia and the British Isles, Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 58, 199-219

Thomas A. T., Owens R. M. (1978) A review of the trilobite family Aulacopleuridae, Palaeontology 21 1, 65-81

Owens R. M., Hammann W. (1990) Proetide triolobites from the Cystoid Limestone (Ashgill) of NW Spain, and the suprageneric classification of related forms, Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 64 3/4, 221-244

Adrain J. M., Chatterton B. D. E., et al (1995) Silurian trilobites from southwestern Alaska, Journal of Paleontology 69 4, 723-736

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

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - 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

extinct group - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Priroda (Brno), 38, (5-6) - 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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