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| '''''Han''''' is a ] of ] ], whose sole member is '''''Han solo'''''. |
'''''Han''''' is a ] of ] ], whose sole member is '''''Han solo'''''. The type specimen of ''H. solo'' was found in marine strata of the Arenig to Llanvirn-aged ] of Middle ] southern ] and is named after the ] in '']''. | ||
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| According to the original publication, the generic name ''Han'' is a reference to the ], the largest ] in China; and the specific epithet ''solo'' refers to the fact that the species is the youngest ] fossil found to that date, suggesting that it was the last surviving member of that family.<ref name="Turvey 2005"/> However, Samuel Turvey has stated elsewhere that he named it after ] because some friends dared him to name a species after a '']'' character.<ref name="Curiosities">{{cite web | url = http://www.curioustaxonomy.net/etym/fiction.html | title = Etymology: Names from Fictional Characters | work = Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature | accessdate = February 5, 2009}}</ref> | According to the original publication, the generic name ''Han'' is a reference to the ], the largest ] in China; and the specific epithet ''solo'' refers to the fact that the species is the youngest ] fossil found to that date, suggesting that it was the last surviving member of that family.<ref name="Turvey 2005"/> However, Samuel Turvey has stated elsewhere that he named it after ] because some friends dared him to name a species after a '']'' character.<ref name="Curiosities">{{cite web | url = http://www.curioustaxonomy.net/etym/fiction.html | title = Etymology: Names from Fictional Characters | work = Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature | accessdate = February 5, 2009}}</ref> | ||
| This is not the only unusual scientific name erected by Turvey; in the same paper he named a new species '']'', because of "the resemblance of the pygidial axis to the heads of ], two characters from '']''."<ref name="Turvey 2005"/> | This is not the only unusual scientific name erected by Turvey; in the same paper he named a new species '']'', because of "the resemblance of the pygidial axis to the heads of ], two characters from '']''."<ref name="Turvey 2005"/> | ||
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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Extinct genus of trilobites
| Han solo Temporal range: Middle Ordovician PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita (?) |
| Order: | †Agnostida |
| Family: | †Diplagnostidae |
| Genus: | †Han Turvey, 2005 |
| Species: | †H. solo |
| Binomial name | |
| †Han solo Turvey, 2005 | |
Han is a monotypic genus of agnostid trilobite, whose sole member is Han solo. The type specimen of H. solo was found in marine strata of the Arenig to Llanvirn-aged Zitai Formation of Middle Ordovician southern China and is named after the character in Star Wars.
Taxonomy
This taxon was erected in 2005, based upon fossil material found in beds of lower Zitai Formation exposed in Maocaopu, Reshi, Taoyuan County in north Hunan, China. Fossil material include a cephalon and two pygidia. It was found to belong to family Diplagnostidae, subfamily Pseudagnostinae; it was originally thought to be most closely related to the genus Pseudorhaptagnostus, but it differed substantially from that genus in both some important diagnostic characters, and in the age of the beds in it was deposited, so a new genus was erected.
Etymology
According to the original publication, the generic name Han is a reference to the Han Chinese, the largest ethnic group in China; and the specific epithet solo refers to the fact that the species is the youngest Diplagnostidae fossil found to that date, suggesting that it was the last surviving member of that family. However, Samuel Turvey has stated elsewhere that he named it after Han Solo because some friends dared him to name a species after a Star Wars character.
This is not the only unusual scientific name erected by Turvey; in the same paper he named a new species Geragnostus waldorfstatleri, because of "the resemblance of the pygidial axis to the heads of Waldorf and Statler, two characters from The Muppet Show."
See also
References
- ^ Turvey, Samuel T. (2005). "Agnostid trilobites from the Arenig–Llanvirn of South China". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences. 95 (3–4): 527–542. doi:10.1017/S0263593304000355. Retrieved February 9, 2009.
- "Etymology: Names from Fictional Characters". Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature. Retrieved February 5, 2009.