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Mesonirvana

Insecta - Hemiptera - Dysmorphoptilidae

Taxonomy

Mesonirvana was named by Evans (1956).

It was synonymized subjectively with Eoscartoides by Lambkin (2016).

It was assigned to Scytinopteridae by Evans (1956); to Hylicellidae by Hamilton (1992); to Eoscarterellinae by Szwedo and Huang (2019); and to Dysmorphoptilidae by Lambkin (2017), Dmitriev (2020).

Species

M. abrupta (syn. Eoscartoides bryani), M. dmitryi, M. orthoclada

Synonyms

Eoscartoides was named by Evans (1956).

It was replaced with Mesonirvana by Lambkin (2017), Dmitriev (2020).

It was assigned to Eoscarterellidae by Evans (1956), Hamilton (1992); and to Dysmorphoptilidae by Shcherbakov (1984), Lambkin (2016).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1956	Mesonirvana Evans p. 191
1956	Eoscartoides Evans p. 220
1984	Eoscartoides Shcherbakov p. 92
1992	Eoscartoides Hamilton p. 428
1992	Mesonirvana Hamilton p. 428
2016	Eoscartoides Lambkin p. 208
2017	Mesonirvana Lambkin
2019	Mesonirvana Szwedo and Huang p. 160
2020	Mesonirvana Dmitriev p. 30

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta

Rank	Name	Author
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Clareocercaria
—	Acercaria	()
superorder	Pancondylognatha
—	Condylognatha
order	Hemiptera
suborder	Auchenorrhyncha	()
infraorder	Cicadomorpha	Evans 1946
infraorder	Prosbolomorpha	Popov 1980
superfamily	Dysmorphoptiloidea
family	Dysmorphoptilidae
genus	Mesonirvana

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.

G. †Mesonirvana Evans 1956

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†Mesonirvana abrupta Evans 1956

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Invalid names: Eoscartoides bryani Evans 1956 [synonym]

†Mesonirvana dmitryi Lambkin 2016

†Mesonirvana orthoclada Tillyard 1922

Invalid names: Eoscartoides Evans 1956 [replaced]

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: Norian or 227.30000 to 205.70000 Ma

Collections (6 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Norian	227.3 - 205.7	Australia (Queensland)	Eoscartoides bryani (162403) Eoscartoides dmitryi (154205 162402 162405) Mesocixiodes orthoclada (111558) M. abrupta, Eoscartoides bryani (106484)