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Becquerelia elegans

Insecta - Palaeodictyoptera - Spilapteridae

Taxonomy
Becquerelia elegans was named by Brongniart (1894). Its type specimen is MNHN.F.R51209, a wing (fragment), and it is an impression. Its type locality is Commentry (MNHN Brongniart coll), which is in a Gzhelian lacustrine deltaic shale in the Commentry Shales Formation of France. It is the type species of Pseudobecquerelia.

It was recombined as Pseudobecquerelia elegans by Handlirsch (1919) and Handlirsch (1922).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1894Becquerelia elegans Brongniart p. 359 figs. Pl 20, fig 2Pl
1906Becquerelia elegans Handlirsch p. 109 figs. Pl XII fig 7
1917Becquerelia elegans Lameere p. 152
1919Pseudobecquerelia elegans Handlirsch p. 534
1922Pseudobecquerelia elegans Handlirsch p. 53
1969Becquerelia elegans Kukalová p. 188

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
RankNameAuthor
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
superorderPalaeodictyopterida(Bechly 1996)
orderPalaeodictyoptera
superfamilySpilapteroidea
familySpilapteridae
genusBecquerelia
specieselegans

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.

†Becquerelia elegans Brongniart 1894
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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: Gzhelian or 303.70000 to 298.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Gzhelian303.7 - 298.9France Becquerelia elegans (type locality: 103635)