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Palloptera morticina

Insecta - Diptera - Pallopteridae

Taxonomy
Palloptera morticina was named by Scudder (1877). Its type specimen is GSC 20, a wing (fragment of a wing), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Quesnel, which is in a Priabonian lacustrine shale in the Australian Creek Formation of Canada.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1877Palloptera morticina Scudder p. 278
1890Palloptera morticina Scudder p. 540 figs. Pl 3 fig 15

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
RankNameAuthor
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
—Heterodactyla
—Eremoneura
suborderCyclorrhapha()
—Schizophora
superfamilyTephritoidea
familyPallopteridaeLoew 1862
subfamilyPallopterinaeLoew 1862
genusPallopteraFallen 1820
speciesmorticina

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.

†Palloptera morticina Scudder 1877
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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: Priabonian or 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Canada (British Columbia) Palloptera morticina (type locality: 121480)