Conocephalites Barrande, 1852, is a disused name for a genus of trilobite, of which the species have now been reassigned to other genera. The name was introduced as a replacement for Conocephalus Zenker, 1833, which was unavailable since Thunberg used it in 1815 for a genus of conehead bushcricket. Barrande however was unaware that Conocoryphe had already been proposed by Hawle and Corda in 1847.
The following species have been reassigned.[1]
- C. anatinus = Monocheilus anatinus
- C. antiquatus = Elrathia antiquata[2]
- C. bailey = Bailiella bailey
- C. bavaricus = Leimitzia bavarica
- C. calciferous = Saratogia calcifera
- C. cirina = Conocoryphe cirina
- C. elegans = Bailiaspis elegans
- C. eryon = Kendallina eryon
- C. hofensis = Bavarilla hofensis
- C. micros = Conocoryphe micros
- C. nasutus = Maustonia nasutus
- C. ornatus = Conokephalina ornata
- C. oweni = Stigmacephalus oweni
- C. patersoni = Psalaspis patersoni
- C. robbi = Brunswickia robbi
- C. shumardi = Taenicephalus shumardi
- C. stephensi = Tasmanocephalus stephensi
- C. subcoronatus = Alokistocare subcoronatus[3]
- C. sulzeri = Conocoryphe sulzeri
- C. zenkeri = Loganopeltoides zenkeri
References
edit- ^ Moore, R.C. (1959). Arthropoda I - Arthropoda General Features, Proarthropoda, Euarthropoda General Features, Trilobitomorpha. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Vol. Part O. Boulder, Colorado/Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America/University of Kansas Press. pp. O234, O238, O242, O252, O273, O288, O361, O418, O455, O525. ISBN 0-8137-3015-5.
- ^ Resser, Charles Elmer (1938). Cambrian System (Restricted) of the Southern Appalachians. Geological Society of America Special Paper. Vol. 15. p. 76. ISBN 081372015X.
- ^ Palmer, A.R. (1954). "An Appraisal of the Great Basin Middle Cambrian Trilobites described before 1900". Geological Survey Professional Paper. 264-D: 57.