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Beris miocenica

Insecta - Diptera - Stratiomyidae

Taxonomy
Beris miocenica was named by James (1937). Its type specimen is University of Colorado Museum, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Florissant, Station 17B, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Beris miocenica James p. 245

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
—Homeodactyla
infraorderStratiomyomorpha
familyStratiomyidae()
genusBeris
speciesmiocenica

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.

†Beris miocenica James 1937
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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: Chadronian or 37.20000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Beris miocenica (type locality: 106383)