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Clatrotitan andersoni

Insecta - Orthoptera - Mesotitanidae

Taxonomy
Clatrotitan andersoni was named by McKeown (1937). Its type specimen is Australian Museum F 36274, a forewing (forewing), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Beacon Hill Quarry (AM collection), which is in an Anisian lacustrine - small shale in the Hawkesbury Sandstone Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Clatrotitan.

It was synonymized subjectively with Clathrotitan scullyi by Riek (1954).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Clatrotitan andersoni McKeown p. 32
2021Clatrotitan andersoni Schubnel et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
orderOrthoptera
suborderTitanoptera()
suborderMesotitaninaTillyard 1925
familyMesotitanidae
genusClatrotitan
speciesandersoni

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.

Clatrotitan andersoni McKeown 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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Anisian or 247.20000 to 242.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Anisian247.2 - 242.0Australia (New South Wales) Clatrotitan andersoni (type locality: 106483)