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Prochoristella megaloprepia

Insecta - Mecoptera - Mesopsychidae

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
YearName and author
1953Prochoristella megaloprepia Riek p. 71 figs. Pl 6, figs 16,17; text-fig 37
1955Prochoristella megaloprepia Riek p. 669
1978Prochoristella megaloprepia Willmann p. 57
1997Prochoristella megaloprepia Novokshonov p. 69 fig. 21d

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderMecopteraPackard 1886
superfamilyMesopsychoidea
familyMesopsychidae
genusProchoristella
speciesmegaloprepia

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: Changhsingian or 254.17000 to 252.17000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Changhsingian254.17 - 252.17Australia (New South Wales) Prochoristella megaloprepia (type locality: 122433)