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Plecia pealei
Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae
Taxonomy
Plecia pealei was named by Scudder (1890). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Bluffs at head of Twin Creek (Peale collection), which is in a Wasatchian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1890 | Plecia pealei Scudder p. 585 figs. Pl 4 figs 2, 3, 10-12 |
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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 pealei Scudder 1890
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: Wasatchian or 55.80000 to 50.30000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Wasatchian | USA (Wyoming) | Plecia pealei (type locality: 122174 122192 122193 187759) |