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Exechia distincta

Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae

Taxonomy
Exechia distincta was named by Theobald (1937). Its type specimen is Foerster coll My 2, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Brunstatt (Theobald coll), which is in an Oligocene lacustrine - large marl in France.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Exechia distincta Theobald p. 223 figs. Pl XVI fig 4
2021Exechia distincta Oliveira and Amorim p. 106

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familyMycetophilidae
subfamilyMycetophilinae
tribeExechiiniEnderlein 1936
genusExechia
speciesdistincta

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.

†Exechia distincta 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: Early/Lower Oligocene or 33.90000 to 28.40000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 28.4France Exechia distincta (type locality: 122408)