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Carpentertypus durhami

Insecta - Meganisoptera - Meganeuridae

Taxonomy
Typus durhami was named by Carpenter (1960). Its type specimen is USNM 8758, a wing (Apical Fragments of fore & hindwing), and it is an impression. Its type locality is Williams Coal Company Mine, Catoosa, which is in a Yeadonian terrestrial sandstone in the Walden Sandstone Formation of Georgia.

It was recombined as Boltonites durhami by Durden (1984); it was recombined as Carpentertypus durhami by Zessin (1983), Brauckmann and Zessin (1989), Prokop and Nel (2010).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1960Typus durhami Carpenter
1983Carpentertypus durhami Zessin
1984Boltonites durhami Durden p. 176
1989Carpentertypus durhami Brauckmann and Zessin p. 182
2010Typus durhami Huang and Nel
2010Carpentertypus durhami Prokop and Nel p. 183

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
Deuteropoda
Mandibulata
PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
Athalassocarida
LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
Cercofilata
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
infraclassHydropalaeopteraRohdendorf 1969
Euhydropalaeoptera
OdonatopteraMartynov 1932
Palaeodonatoptera
Plesiodonatoptera
Apodonatoptera
Paneodonatoptera
Neodonatoptera
orderMeganisoptera
familyMeganeuridae
subfamilyCarpentertypinae
genusCarpentertypus
speciesdurhami()

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.

Carpentertypus durhami Carpenter 1960
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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: Yeadonian or 320.00000 to 318.70000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Yeadonian320.0 - 318.7USA (Georgia) Typus durhami (type locality: 111035)