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Delopterum minutum

Insecta - Miomoptera - Palaeomanteidae

Taxonomy
Delopterum minutum was named by Sellards (1909). Its type specimen is Sellards 264, a forewing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Elmo, Sellards collection, which is in an Artinskian pond limestone in the Wellington Formation of Kansas. It is the type species of Delopterum.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1909Delopterum minutum Sellards p. 168 fig. 16
1922Delopterum minutum Handlirsch p. 93
1928Delopterum minutum Tillyard p. 472 fig. 1
1928Delopterum dunbari Tillyard p. 473 figs. Fig 2,3
1933Delopterum minutum Carpenter
2004Delopterum minutum Rasnitsyn p. 230
2017Delopterum minutum Prokop et al. p. 8 fig. 3

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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
RankNameAuthor
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
Cercofilata
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Clareocercaria
orderMiomoptera
familyPalaeomanteidae()
genusDelopterumSellards 1909
speciesminutum

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.

Delopterum minutum Sellards 1909
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Invalid names: Delopterum dunbari Tillyard 1928 [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: Artinskian or 290.10000 to 283.30000 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Artinskian290.1 - 283.3USA (Oklahoma) Delopterum minutum (104826)
Artinskian290.1 - 283.3USA (Kansas) Delopterum minutum (type locality: 21979 111319 111320 114151) Delopterum minutum, Delopterum dunbari (111219)