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Prochoristella megaloprepia
Taxonomy
Prochoristella megaloprepia was named by Riek (1953). Its type specimen is AM F40123, a forewing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Warner's Bay, Belmont (AMF coll), which is in a Changhsingian pond chert in the Croudace Bay Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Prochoristella.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1953 | Prochoristella megaloprepia Riek p. 71 figs. Pl 6, figs 16,17; text-fig 37 |
| 1955 | Prochoristella megaloprepia Riek p. 669 |
| 1978 | Prochoristella megaloprepia Willmann p. 57 |
| 1997 | Prochoristella megaloprepia Novokshonov p. 69 fig. 21d |
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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.
†Prochoristella megaloprepia Riek 1953
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Changhsingian or 254.17000 to 252.17000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Changhsingian | Australia (New South Wales) | Prochoristella megaloprepia (type locality: 122433) |