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Eopachylosticta byrami

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Cimbicidae

Taxonomy
Amasis byrami was named by Cockerell (1925). Its type specimen is USNM 69181, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is East Alkali Gulch head, south of De Beque, which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Colorado. It is the type species of Eopachylosticta.

It was recombined as Eopachylosticta byrami by Malaise (1945), Zhelochovtzev and Rasnitsyn (1972), Nel (2004), Taeger et al. (2010) and Archibald and Rasnitsyn (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1925Amasis byrami Cockerell p. 10 figs. Pl 2, fig 5
1945Eopachylosticta byrami Malaise p. 14
1972Eopachylosticta byrami Zhelochovtzev and Rasnitsyn p. 317
2004Eopachylosticta byrami Nel p. 263
2010Eopachylosticta byrami Taeger et al. p. 191
2023Eopachylosticta byrami Archibald and Rasnitsyn p. 25 fig. 23

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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
familyCimbicidae
subfamilyPachylostictinae
genusEopachylosticta
speciesbyrami()

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.

†Eopachylosticta byrami Cockerell 1925
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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: 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 (Colorado) Amasis byrami (type locality: 122746)