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Austrorhyphus moryi

Insecta - Diptera - Protorhyphidae

Taxonomy
Austrorhyphus moryi was named by Martin (2008). Its type specimen is WAM 07.227, a wing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Mintaja 1 outcrop, Hill River region, which is in a Toarcian interdistributary bay siltstone in the Cattamarra Coal Measures Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Austrorhyphus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2008Austrorhyphus moryi Martin p. 255 fig. 2,3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilyAnisopodoidea
familyProtorhyphidae
subfamilyProtorhyphinae
genusAustrorhyphus
speciesmoryi

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.

†Austrorhyphus moryi Martin 2008
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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: Toarcian or 182.70000 to 174.10000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Toarcian182.7 - 174.1Australia (Western Australia) Austrorhyphus moryi (type locality: 114239)