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Lithymnetes guttatus

Insecta - Orthoptera

Taxonomy
Lithymnetes guttatus was named by Scudder (1878). Its type specimen is 11,557, an exoskeleton, 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.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1878Lithymnetes guttatus Scudder pp. 533-534
1885Lithymnetes guttatus Scudder p. 770 fig. 969
1890Lithymnetes guttatus Scudder p. 229 figs. Pl 17 figs 14, 15
1907Lithymnetes guttatus Handlirsch p. 683
1939Lithymnetes guttatus Zeuner p. 264 figs. Pl 65, figs 6,7

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
orderOrthoptera
genusLithymnetes
speciesguttatus

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.

†Lithymnetes guttatus Scudder 1878
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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: Chadronian or 37.20000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Lithymnetes guttatus (type locality: 106384)