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Heteroptilon costale

Insecta - Cnemidolestodea - Tillyardembiidae

Taxonomy
Heteroptilon costale was named by Carpenter (1976). Its type specimen is MCZ 5878, 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 Heteroptilon.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1976Heteroptilon costale Carpenter p. 347 fig. 8
2020Heteroptilon costale Aristov p. 4 fig. 1,2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
superorderArchaeorthoptera
orderCnemidolestodea
suborderCnemidolestina
familyTillyardembiidae
genusHeteroptilon
speciescostale

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.

†Heteroptilon costale 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) Heteroptilon costale (type locality: 111217)