Nectaspida

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Nectaspida
Fossil range: Cambrian to Silurian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Nectaspida
Raymond, 1920
Families

Liwiidae†
Naraoiidae

The Nectaspida (also called Naraoiida, Nectaspia and Nektaspida) is an extinct order of soft-bodied arthropods proposed by Raymond in 1920; its taxonomic status is uncertain. Specimens are known from the early Cambrian to the upper Silurian periods. Whittington (1985) placed the order in the Trilobita. Cotton & Braddy (2000) place it in a new "Trilobite clade" containing the Trilobita, recognizing the close affinities of the Nectaspids to trilobites. Others consider the small number of genera in the Nectaspida unworthy of ordinal status.

[edit] Naming history

The order was originally proposed by Raymond in 1920 as Nectaspia. Størmer corrected it to Nectaspida for the 1959 Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology to conform with the names of the other trilobite orders. Whittington described it in 1985 with the spelling Nektaspida; the revised 1997 Treatise by Raymond and Fortey uses this spelling.

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