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Triassochorista nana

Insecta - Mecoptera - Parachoristidae

Taxonomy
Neoparachorista nana was named by Riek (1955). Its type specimen is University of Queensland Department of Geology C2080, C2081, 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 Triassochorista.

It was recombined as Triassochorista nana by Willmann (1989).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1955Neoparachorista nana Riek p. 665
1978Neoparachorista nana Willmann p. 54
1989Triassochorista nana Willmann p. 117 fig. 126

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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
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderMecopteraPackard 1886
suborderEumecopteraTillyard 1919
familyParachoristidae
subfamilyNeoparachoristinae()
genusTriassochorista
speciesnana()

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.

†Triassochorista nana 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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

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) Neoparachorista nana (type locality: 106484)