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Florissantia elegans

Insecta - Hemiptera - Dictyopharidae

Taxonomy
Florissantia elegans was named by Scudder (1890). Its type specimen is PU 6783, an exoskeleton (body with wings), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Florissant (former Princeton collection), which is in an Eocene lacustrine - large shale/volcaniclastic in the Florissant Formation of Colorado. It is the type species of Florissantia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Florissantia elegans Scudder p. 294 figs. Pl 19 fig 12
1909Florissantia elegans Cockerell
2004Florissantia elegans Szwedo et al. p. 49

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Clareocercaria
—Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
—Condylognatha
orderHemiptera
—HemelytrataFallen 1829
suborderFulgoromorpha(Evans 1946)
informalEucixioidian
superfamilyFulgoroidea
familyDictyopharidae()
genusFlorissantia
specieselegans

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.

†Florissantia elegans Scudder 1890
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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: Chadronian or 37.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Eocene37.71 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Florissantia elegans (type locality: 122093)
Chadronian37.0 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Florissantia elegans (106380)