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Archiraphidia tranquilla

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Raphidiidae

Taxonomy
Raphidia tranquilla was named by Scudder (1890). Its type specimen is MCZ 246, an exoskeleton (missing head & wings overlapping), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

It was recombined as Archiraphidia tranquilla by Handlirsch (1910), Makarkin and Archibald (2014).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Raphidia tranquilla Scudder p. 154 figs. Pl 14 fig 2
1890Inocellia eventa Scudder p. 160
1910Archiraphidia eventa Handlirsch p. 103
1910Archiraphidia tranquilla Handlirsch p. 103
1936Raphidia tranquilla Carpenter p. 150
2002Raphidia tranquilla Engel p. 22
2014Archiraphidia tranquilla Makarkin and Archibald p. 423 figs. 12-16

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
superorderNeuropterida
orderRaphidioptera()
suborderRaphidiomorpha
—Raphidiformia
—Euraphidioptera
infraorderNeoraphidioptera
familyRaphidiidae
genusArchiraphidia
speciestranquilla()

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.

†Archiraphidia tranquilla Scudder 1890
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Invalid names: Inocellia eventa Scudder 1890 [synonym]
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: Chadronian or 37.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.0 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Raphidia tranquilla, Inocellia eventa (type locality: 106384)