Aayemenaytcheia
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| Aayemenaytcheia | |
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| Artist's reconstruction | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Proetida |
| Family: | †Proetidae |
| Genus: | †Aayemenaytcheia Lieberman, 1994 |
| Species: | †A. paragranulata |
| Binomial name | |
| †Aayemenaytcheia paragranulata (Ormiston, 1967) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Dechenella paragranulata Ormiston, 1967 | |
Aayemenaytcheia paragranulata is a Middle Devonian proetid trilobite.
The genus name is the vocalisation of the acronym AMNH of the American Museum of Natural History and the suffix -ia (Aay-Em-En-Aytche-ia), as gratitude for funding Lieberman's research. The species epithet paragranulata refers to the fact that the species was first regarded as closely related to Dechenella granulata.[1]
Distribution
A. paragranulata has been collected from the Devonian of Canada (Emsian and Eifelian, Blue Fjord Formation, Bathurst Island, Nunavut).[1]
