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Termopsis gracilipennis

Insecta - Blattodea - Termopsidae

Taxonomy
Termopsis gracilipennis was named by Theobald (1937). Its type specimen is Bale Museum R 630, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Kleinkembs, which is in a Rupelian lacustrine - large marl/limestone in the Salt Formation of Germany.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Nel and Paicheler (1993).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Termopsis gracilipennis Theobald p. 162 figs. Pl XIX fig 27
1949Termopsis gracilipennis Snyder p. 361
2013Termopsis gracilipennis Krishna et al. p. 250

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
Xylophagodea
infraorderIsoptera()
Euisoptera
familyTermopsidae(Holmgren 1911)
genusTermopsis()
speciesgracilipennis

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.

Termopsis gracilipennis Theobald 1937
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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: Rupelian or 33.90000 to 28.10000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Rupelian33.9 - 28.1Germany Termopsis gracilipennis (type locality: 122407)