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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4637819	https://www.gbif.org/species/4637819
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	114938	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=114938

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Lichida : Damesellidae : Palaeadotes

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	Lichida	Moore 1959
family	Damesellidae	Kobayashi 1935
genus	Palaeadotes	Öpik 1967

Scientific Name

Palaeadotes Öpik, 1967

Name Published In

Bull. Bur. Miner. Resour. Geol. Geophys. Aust. 74 (1)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Palaeadotes	genus	belongs to Trilobita	stated without evidence	Opik, 1967
Palaeadotes	genus	belongs to Trilobita	implied	Pojeta et al., 1977
Palaeadotes	subgenus	belongs to Bergeronites	stated without evidence	Qian and Zhou, 1984
Palaeadotes	genus	subjective synonym of Bergeronites	stated without evidence	Jell and Adrain, 2002
Palaeadotes	genus	belongs to Damesellidae	stated with evidence	Peng et al., 2004

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

505 - 501 Ma
Cambrian

Last Recorded Appearance

501 - 485 Ma
Cambrian

Environment

marine (based on Trilobita)

Motility

fast-moving (based on Trilobita)

Vision

well-developed (based on Damesellidae)

Diet

carnivore (based on Lichida)

Ontogeny

molting,addition of parts (based on Trilobita)

Taphonomy

low Mg calcite, chitin (based on Trilobita)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. A. Opik. 1967. The Mindyallan fauna of north-western Queensland. Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 74:1-571

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Bergeronites (Palaeadotes) obtusa ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	501 Ma Cambrian	501 Ma Cambrian
Bergeronites obtusa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Palaeadotes acutisulcatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	505 Ma Cambrian	505 Ma Cambrian
Palaeadotes angustus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	505 Ma Cambrian	505 Ma Cambrian
Palaeadotes bella ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	501 Ma Cambrian	501 Ma Cambrian
Palaeadotes hunanensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		37	505 Ma Cambrian	501 Ma Cambrian
Palaeadotes obtusa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Palaeodotes (Opik, 1967)	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Lichida : Damesellidae : *Palaeodotes*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1967	Palaeadotes Opik
1977	Palaeodotes Pojeta et al. p. 42
1984	Bergeronites (Palaeadotes) Qian and Zhou
2004	Palaeadotes Peng et al.

References

Opik A. A. (1967) The Mindyallan fauna of north-western Queensland, Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 74, 1-571

Pojeta J., Gilbert-Tomlinson J., et al (1977) Cambrian and Ordovician rostroconch molluscs from Northern Australia, Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 171, 1-54

Qian Y., Zhou Z. (1984) Middle and early Upper Cambrian trilobites from Kunshan, Jiangsu with reference to their distribution in the Lower Yangtze Region, Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 23 2, 170-184

Peng S., Babcock L. E., et al (2004) , Polymerid trilobites from the Cambrian of northwestern Hunan, China, Volume 1: Corynexochida, Lichida and Asaphida, 1-333 doi:10.1016/B978-008045041-4.50017-1

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

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bull. Bur. Miner. Resour. Geol. Geophys. Aust. 74 (1) - 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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