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Choristopanorpa bifasciata

Insecta - Mecoptera - Orthophlebiidae

Taxonomy
Choristopanorpa bifasciata was named by Riek (1950). Its type specimen is Australian Museum F.30959, a 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 was recombined as Protorthophlebia (Psomophlebia) bifaciata by Hong and Zhang (2007).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1950Choristopanorpa bifasciata Riek p. 254
1978Choristopanorpa bifasciata Willmann p. 64
2007Protorthophlebia (Psomophlebia) bifaciata Hong and Zhang p. 33

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderMecopteraPackard 1886
suborderPistillifera
infraorderOpisthogonopora
—Panorpomorpha
—Panorpina
—Panorpini
superfamilyPanorpoidea
familyOrthophlebiidae()
genusChoristopanorpa
speciesbifasciata

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.

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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) Choristopanorpa bifasciata (type locality: 106483)