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Plecia cairnesi

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Plecia cairnesi was named by Rice (1959). Its type specimen is GSC 14432, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Driftwood Canyon, east side 1.45 miles from schoolhouse, which is in a Ypresian lacustrine shale in Canada.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1959Plecia cairnesi Rice p. 11 figs. Pl II figs 3, 7; Fig 3 Nos. 17-19

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilyBibionoidea
familyBibionidae
subfamilyPleciinaeDuda 1930
genusPleciaWiedemann 1823
speciescairnesi

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.

†Plecia cairnesi Rice 1959
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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: Ypresian or 56.00000 to 47.80000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8Canada (British Columbia) Plecia cairnesi (type locality: 120991 120992)