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Eomerope

Insecta - Mecoptera - Eomeropidae

Taxonomy

Eomerope was named by Cockerell (1909). Its type is Eomerope tortriciformis. It is the type genus of Eomeropinae, Eomeropidae.

It was assigned to Notiothaumidae by Carpenter (1972); to Eomeropinae by Willmann (1978); and to Eomeropidae by Cockerell (1909), Ponomarenko (1974), Carpenter (1992).

Species

E. asiatica, E. eonearctica, E. macabeensis, E. pacifica, E. simpkinsae, E. tortriciformis (type species)

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1909	Eomerope Cockerell p. 381
1972	Eomerope Carpenter p. 79
1974	Eomerope Ponomarenko p. 504
1978	Eomerope Willmann p. 14
1992	Eomerope Carpenter

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta

Rank	Name	Author
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Panorpida
superorder	Antliophora
order	Mecoptera	Packard 1886
suborder	Pistillifera
infraorder	Opisthogonopora
—	Panorpomorpha
—	Eomeropina
family	Eomeropidae
genus	Eomerope

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.

G. †Eomerope Cockerell 1909

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†Eomerope asiatica Ponomarenko 1974

†Eomerope eonearctica Archibald and Rasnitsyn 2018

†Eomerope macabeensis Archibald et al. 2005

†Eomerope pacifica Ponomarenko 1974

†Eomerope simpkinsae Archibald and Rasnitsyn 2018

†Eomerope tortriciformis Cockerell 1909

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: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Rupelian or 56.00000 to 27.30000 Ma

Collections (5 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Ypresian	56.0 - 48.07	Canada (British Columbia)	E. macabeensis, E. eonearctica (103205) E. simpkinsae (193538)
Ypresian	56.0 - 48.07	Russian Federation (Primorsky Krai)	E. sp., E. asiatica (123616)
Chadronian	37.0 - 33.9	USA (Colorado)	E. tortriciformis (106381)
Rupelian	33.9 - 27.3	Russian Federation	E. pacifica (124920)