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Taxonus nortoni

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Tenthredinidae

Taxonomy
Taxonus nortoni was named by Scudder (1890). Its type specimen is Lee 22, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Green River (Lee Collection), which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large diatomite/shale in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Taxonus nortoni Scudder p. 604 figs. Pl 10 figs 26, 27
2010Taxonus nortoni Taeger et al. p. 303

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
superfamilyTenthredinoidea
familyTenthredinidae()
subfamilyAllantinae
genusTaxonusHartig 1837
speciesnortoni

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.

†Taxonus nortoni Scudder 1890
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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: Bridgerian or 50.30000 to 46.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bridgerian50.3 - 46.2USA (Wyoming) Taxonus nortoni (type locality: 122092)