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Mesotitan

Insecta - Orthoptera - Mesotitanidae

Taxonomy
Mesotitan was named by Tillyard (1916). It is not extant. Its type is Mesotitan giganteus.

It was assigned to Mesotitanidae by Tillyard (1925) and McKeown (1937); and to Mesotitanini by Béthoux (2007).

Species
M. giganteus (type species), M. ovalis, M. primitivus, M. superior

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1916Mesotitan Tillyard p. 40
1925Mesotitan Tillyard
1937Mesotitan McKeown p. 34
1968Ultratitan Sharov
2007Mesotitan Béthoux p. 154

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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
subfamilyMesotitaninae
tribeMesotitaniniTillyard 1925
genusMesotitan

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. †Mesotitan Tillyard 1916
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†Mesotitan giganteus Tillyard 1916
†Mesotitan ovalis Sharov 1968
†Mesotitan primitivus Sharov 1968
†Mesotitan superior Sharov 1968
Invalid names: Ultratitan Sharov 1968 [synonym]
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 Pelsonian to the top of the Ladinian or 247.20000 to 237.00000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Pelsonian - Illyrian247.2 - 242.0Australia (New South Wales) M. sp., M. giganteus (111729)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Kyrgyzstan (Osh) Prototitan primitivus (106088 113468) Prototitan primitivus, Ultratitan superior, Paratitan ovalis (110763)