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 epithetparagranulata 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]
Taxonomy
Файл:Proetinae cladogram.pngCladogram of the genera of the subfamily Proetinae, according to Lieberman, 1994, figures 5 and 6
Aayemenaytcheia paragranulata was originally described as a species belonging to the genus Dechenella. Recent cladistic analysis however makes it likely the species is in fact the earliest branch of a clade that further includes Lacunoporaspis, Dechenella,Schizoproetus and Schizoproetoides. So in order to retain the monophyly of the genus Dechenella, a new genus was erected for D. paragranulata.[1]
