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Shangxiania fengjiashanensis

Insecta - Orthoptera - Prophalangopsidae

Taxonomy
Shangxiania fengjiashanensis was named by Zhang (1993). Its type specimen is AEX72; HN92601, a forewing (female forewing missing base), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Shangxian, which is in a Hauterivian/Barremian lacustrine - large siliciclastic in the Fengjiashan Formation of China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1993Shangxiania fengjiashanensis Zhang pp. 50, 54-55 figs. 1 Pl 1 fig 1
2010Shangxiania fengjiashanensis Gu et al. p. 56

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
orderOrthoptera
suborderEnsiferaChopard 1920
infraorderTettigoniidea
superfamilyHagloideaHandlirsch 1906
familyProphalangopsidaeKirby 1906
subfamilyAboilinae()
genusShangxiania
speciesfengjiashanensis

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinsubo
Ontogeny: moltingsubo
Grouping: gregarioussubo
Environment: terrestrialsubo
Locomotion: fast-movingsubo
Life habit: ground dwellingsubo
Diet: herbivoresubo
Vision: well-developedsubo
Reproduction: oviparoussubo
Dispersal: direct/internalsubo
Dispersal 2: mobilesubo
Created: 2011-07-02 09:58:43
Modified: 2011-07-01 18:58:43
Source: subo = suborder
Reference: Tillyard 1921

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Hauterivian to the top of the Early/Lower Barremian or 136.40000 to 125.45000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Hauterivian - Early/Lower Barremian136.4 - 125.45China (Shaanxi) Shangxiania fengjiashanensis (type locality: 140940)