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Gerapompus blattinoides

Insecta - Cnemidolestodea - Gerapompidae

Taxonomy
Gerapompus blattinoides was named by Scudder (1885). It is an impression. Its type locality is Mazon Creek, USNM Lacoe Collection, which is in a Westphalian D interdistributary bay mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois. It is the type species of Gerapompus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1885Gerapompus blattinoides Scudder p. 326 figs. Pl 29, fig 1
1906Gerapompus blattinoides Handlirsch p. 166 figs. Pl XVII fig 2
1922Gerapompus blattinoides Handlirsch p. 106

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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
familyGerapompidae
genusGerapompus
speciesblattinoides

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.

Gerapompus blattinoides Scudder 1885
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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: Westphalian D or 309.80000 to 307.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Westphalian D309.8 - 307.5USA (Illinois) Gerapompus blattinoides (type locality: 21981)