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Mylacrotermes cordatus

Insecta - Blattodea - Mylacrotermitidae

Taxonomy
Mylacrotermes cordatus was named by Engel et al. (2007). Its type specimen is SEMC KU-Bu-045, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Burmese amber (SEMC Kansas coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar. It is the type species of Mylacrotermes.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2007Mylacrotermes cordatus Engel et al. p. 14 fig. 5,6
2013Mylacrotermes cordatus Krishna et al. p. 2405

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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
familyMylacrotermitidae
genusMylacrotermes
speciescordatus

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.

Mylacrotermes cordatus Engel et al. 2007
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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: Early/Lower Cenomanian or 99.60000 to 93.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Myanmar Mylacrotermes cordatus (type locality: 123116)