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Samaroblatta africanum

Insecta - Blattaria - Caloblattinidae

Taxonomy
Striatotegmen africanum was named by Haughton (1924). Its type specimen is SAM 5634, a tegmen, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Siberia, Wodehouse, which is in a Sinemurian terrestrial shale in the Clarens Formation of South Africa.

It was recombined as Samaroblatta africanum by Riek (1976).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1924Striatotegmen africanum Haughton
1976Samaroblatta africanum Riek p. 802

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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
—ExopterygotaSharp 1899
orderBlattaria(Latreille 1810)
superfamilyCaloblattinoideaVrsansky and Ansorge 2000
familyCaloblattinidae
genusSamaroblatta
speciesafricanum()

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.

†Samaroblatta africanum Haughton 1924
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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: Sinemurian or 199.30000 to 190.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sinemurian199.3 - 190.8South Africa (East Cape) Striatotegmen africanum (type locality: 108811)