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Pleciopsis longa

Insecta - Diptera - Protopleciidae

Taxonomy
Pleciopsis longa was named by Hong (1983). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Zhouyingzi village, collection H8031, Luanping County, which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Jiulongshan Formation of China. It is the type species of Pleciopsis.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1983Pleciopsis longa Hong p. 129 figs. Pl 23, fig 2; text-fig 123

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
superfamilyMycetophiloidea
familyProtopleciidae
genusPleciopsis
specieslonga

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Pleciopsis longa Hong 1983
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Callovian to the top of the Oxfordian or 166.10000 to 157.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Callovian - Oxfordian166.1 - 157.3China (Hebei) Pleciopsis longa (type locality: 154787)