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Osmylopsychops spillerae

Insecta - Neuroptera - Osmylopsychopidae

Taxonomy
Osmylopsychops spillerae was named by Tillyard (1923). Its type specimen is GSQI314, a forewing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Denmark Hill Insect Bed (Dunstan 1915-1916 collection), which is in a Norian pond siltstone in the Blackstone Formation of Australia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1923Osmylopsychops spillerae Tillyard p. 497 figs. Pl 43, figs 39,40; text-fig 93
1949Osmylopsychops spillarae Martynova
1955Osmylopsychops spillerae Riek p. 680
1956Osmylopsychops spillerae Riek p. 103
2014Osmylopsychops spillerae Lambkin p. 63 figs. 4-8

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
superorderNeuropterida
—Metaxyneuroptera
—Eidoneuroptera
orderNeuroptera
—Euneuroptera
—Neoneuroptera
—Geoneuroptera
suborderMyrmeleontiformiaHenry 1982
superfamilyPsychopsoidea
familyOsmylopsychopidae()
genusOsmylopsychops
speciesspillerae

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.

†Osmylopsychops spillerae Tillyard 1923
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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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Norian or 227.30000 to 205.70000 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Norian227.3 - 205.7Australia (Queensland) Osmylopsychops spillerae (106484 type locality: 111558 154204 162402 162403 162404 162405)