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Miotermes procerus

Insecta - Blattodea - Mastotermitidae

Taxonomy
Termes (Termopsis) procerus was named by Heer (1849). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Radoboj (Grätz Collection), which is in a Sarmatian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in Croatia.

It was recombined as Hodotermes procerus by Hagen (1858); it was recombined as Miotermes procerus by von Rosen (1913), Emerson (1933), Snyder (1949), Emerson (1965), Nel and Paicheler (1993) and Krishna et al. (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1849Termes (Termopsis) procerus Heer p. 23 figs. Pl 2, fig 5
1858Hodotermes procerus Hagen p. 97
1913Miotermes procerus von Rosen p. 325
1933Miotermes procerus Emerson p. 191
1949Miotermes procerus Snyder p. 355
1965Miotermes procerus Emerson p. 36
1993Miotermes procerus Nel and Paicheler p. 113
2013Miotermes procerus Krishna et al. p. 242

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
Xylophagodea
infraorderIsoptera()
familyMastotermitidae(Desneux 1904)
genusMiotermes
speciesprocerus()

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.

Miotermes procerus Heer 1849
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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: Sarmatian or 12.70000 to 11.60800 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sarmatian12.7 - 11.608Croatia Termes procerus (type locality: 117246)