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Kalotermes rhenanus

Insecta - Blattodea - Kalotermitidae

Taxonomy
Calotermes rhenanus was named by Hagen (1863). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Rott (Krantz Bonn coll), which is in a MP 30 lacustrine - large shale in the Rott Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Kalotermes rhenanus by Snyder (1949), Emerson (1969), Nel and Paicheler (1993) and Krishna et al. (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1863Calotermes rhenanus Hagen p. 250 figs. Pl 44, figs 1,2
1939Calotermes rhenanus Statz p. 17 figs. Pl 8, figs 34,35
1949Kalotermes rhenanus Snyder p. 358
1969Kalotermes rhenanus Emerson p. 31
1993Kalotermes rhenanus Nel and Paicheler p. 120
2013Kalotermes rhenanus Krishna et al. p. 520

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
Xylophagodea
infraorderIsoptera()
Euisoptera
Artisoptera
Icoisoptera
familyKalotermitidae()
genusKalotermesHagen 1853
speciesrhenanus()

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.

Kalotermes rhenanus Hagen 1863
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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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Chattian or 28.10000 to 23.03000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany Calotermes rhenanus (123945)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) Calotermes rhenanus (122010)