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Elmocladus strictus

Insecta - Cnemidolestodea - Tococladidae

Taxonomy
Opisthocladus strictus was named by Carpenter (1976). Its type specimen is MCZ 5881, a forewing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Elmo, MCZ 1927 collection, which is in an Artinskian pond limestone in the Wellington Formation of Kansas. It is the type species of Elmocladus.

It was recombined as Elmocladus strictus by Rasnitsyn and Aristov (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1976Opisthocladus strictus Carpenter p. 344 fig. 5,6
2021Elmocladus strictus Rasnitsyn and Aristov p. 155 figs. Pl 3, figs 2,3; text-figs 1b-d

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
superorderArchaeorthoptera
orderCnemidolestodea
familyTococladidae
genusElmocladus
speciesstrictus()

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.

Elmocladus strictus Carpenter 1976
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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: Artinskian or 290.10000 to 279.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Artinskian290.1 - 279.3USA (Kansas) Opisthocladus strictus (type locality: 111217)