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Megagnatha odonatiformis

Insecta - Protorthoptera - Megagnathidae

Taxonomy
Megagnatha odonatiformis was named by Bolton (1917). Its type specimen is Manchester Museum L 5.560, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Commentry (Mark Stirrup coll), which is in a Gzhelian lacustrine deltaic mudstone in the Commentry Shales Formation of France. It is the type species of Megagnatha.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1917Megagnatha odonatiformis Bolton pp. 2-6 figs. Pl I figs 1-4
1918Megagnatha odonatiformis Tillyard

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
RankNameAuthor
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
orderProtorthoptera
familyMegagnathidae
genusMegagnatha
speciesodonatiformis

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.

†Megagnatha odonatiformis Bolton 1917
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available