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Archexyela crosbyi

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Xyelidae

Taxonomy
Archexyela crosbyi was named by Riek (1955). Its type specimen is University of Queensland Department of Geology C2232, a forewing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Mount Crosby Insect Bed (UQ collection), which is in a Norian pond shale in Australia. It is the type species of Archexyela.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1955Archexyela crosbyi Riek p. 657
1964Archexyela crosbyi Rasnitsyn p. 88 fig. 1
2010Archexyela crosbyi Taeger et al. p. 666

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
superfamilyXyeloidea
familyXyelidae
subfamilyArchexyelinae
genusArchexyela
speciescrosbyi

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.

†Archexyela crosbyi Riek 1955
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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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Norian or 228.00000 to 208.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Norian228.0 - 208.5Australia (Queensland) Archexyela crosbyi (type locality: 106484)