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Australiphemeridae

Insecta - Ephemeroptera - Australiphemeridae

Taxonomy

Australiphemeridae was named by McCafferty (1991). Its type is Australiphemera.

It was assigned to Ephemeroidea by McCafferty (1991) and Sinitshenkova (2000).

Subtaxa

Australiphemera (type genus), Borephemera, Crepotamanthus, Microphemera, Nanophemera, Palaeoanthus

Synonyms

Palaeoanthidae was named by Kluge (1993).

It was synonymized subjectively with Australiphemeridae by Zheng and Chen (2023).

It was assigned to Ephemeroidea by Kluge (1993).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1991	Australiphemeridae McCafferty p. 355
1993	Palaeoanthidae Kluge p. 44
2000	Australiphemeridae Sinitshenkova

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Pterygota	()
infraclass	Hydropalaeoptera	Rohdendorf 1969
—	Euhydropalaeoptera
—	Panephemeroptera	Crampton 1928
—	Ephemerida	(Latreille 1810)
—	Heptabranchia
order	Ephemeroptera	Hyatt and Arms 1890
suborder	Schistonota
superfamily	Ephemeroidea
family	Australiphemeridae
family	Australiphemeridae

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.

Fm. †Australiphemeridae McCafferty 1991

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G. †Australiphemera McCafferty 1990

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†Australiphemera revelata McCafferty 1990

G. †Borephemera Sinitshenkova 2000 [Mayfly]

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†Borephemera goldmani Sinitshenkova 2000 [Mayfly]

G. †Crepotamanthus Zheng and Chen 2023

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†Crepotamanthus spinitarsus Zheng and Chen 2023

G. †Microphemera McCafferty 1990

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†Microphemera neotropica McCafferty 1990

G. †Nanophemera McCafferty and Santiago-Blay 2008

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†Nanophemera myanmarensis McCafferty and Santiago-Blay 2008

G. †Palaeoanthus Kluge 1993

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†Palaeoanthus minutus Kluge 1993

†Palaeoanthus orthostylus Kluge 1993

Invalid names: Palaeoanthidae Kluge 1993 [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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Aptian to the top of the Late/Upper Santonian or 122.46000 to 83.50000 Ma

Collections (6 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Aptian	122.46 - 113.0	Brazil (Ceará)	Australiphemera revelata, Microphemera neotropica (122352)
Early/Lower Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	Myanmar	Crepotamanthus spinitarsus (194479) Nanophemera myanmarensis (124697)
Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	USA (New Jersey)	Borephemera goldmani (110895)
Late/Upper Santonian	85.8 - 83.5	Russian Federation	Palaeoanthus orthostylus (122590) Palaeoanthus orthostylus, Palaeoanthus minutus (35056)