Persiax

Genus of trilobites

Persiax

Temporal range: Tournaisian

PreꞒ

Artist reconstruction of Persiax praecox
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Clade:  | †Artiopoda
Class:  | †Trilobita
Order:  | †Proetida
Family:  | †Phillipsiidae
Subfamily:  | †Cummingellinae
Genus:  | †Persiax
Lerosey-Aubril & Deshmukh, 2022
Species:  |

†P. praecox

Binomial name
†Persiax praecox

(Lerosey-Aubril, 2012)

Persiax praecox is a species of phillipsiid proetid trilobite from Tournaisian-aged marine strata in what is now Eastern Iran.[1]

## Etymology

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The original generic name refers to "Persia," the old name of Iran, the country where the type specimen was found. The specific name refers to how it is the earliest known and most primitive phillipsiid of the subfamily Cummingellinae, i.e., that it is the progenitor of Cummingellinae.[1] Because "Persia" as a taxonomic name is preoccupied by a bivalve mollusk, Persia monstrosa Repin 1996, from Early Triassic-aged marine strata of the Salt and Surghar Ranges in Pakistan, P. praecox was renamed as Persiax praecox.[2]

## References

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1. ^ a b Lerosey-Aubril, Rudy. "The Late Palaeozoic trilobites of Iran and Armenia and their palaeogeographical significance." Geological Magazine 149.06 (2012): 1023-1045. [1]
2. ^ Lerosey-Aubril, R.; Deshmukh, U. B. (2022). "Persiax, a replacement name for Persia Lerosey-Aubril, 2012 (Trilobita) non Repin, 1996 (Bivalvia), preoccupied". Zootaxa. 5178 (4): 400. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5178.4.7. PMID 36095720. S2CID 251913383.

Taxon identifiers

Persiax|

* Wikidata: Q124652241
* GBIF: 12242514
* IRMNG: 11923532

Persia|

* Wikidata: Q28432821
* GBIF: 8591185
* IRMNG: 1483460
* Paleobiology Database: 243201

Persia praecox|

* Wikidata: Q79327347
* GBIF: 8480869
* Open Tree of Life: 7937028
* Paleobiology Database: 243202

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