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Cnemidolestes woodwardi

Insecta - Cnemidolestodea - Cnemidolestidae

Taxonomy
Protophasma woodwardii was named by Brongniart (1883). Its type specimen is MNHN DHT-R51272, an exoskeleton, 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 Cnemidolestes.

It was corrected as Protophasma woodwardi by Brongniart (1894); it was recombined as Protodiamphipnoa woodwardi by Lameere (1917); it was recombined as Cnemidolestes woodwardi by Handlirsch (1906), Handlirsch (1922) and Béthoux and Nel (2005).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1883Protophasma woodwardii Brongniart p. 21
1894Protophasma woodwardi Brongniart p. 427 figs. Pl 33, fig 3
1906Cnemidolestes woodwardi Handlirsch p. 135
1917Protodiamphipnoa woodwardi Lameere p. 171
1922Cnemidolestes woodwardi Handlirsch p. 91
2005Cnemidolestes woodwardi Béthoux and Nel p. 303 fig. 17,18

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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
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
superorderArchaeorthoptera
orderCnemidolestodea
suborderCnemidolestina
familyCnemidolestidae
genusCnemidolestes
specieswoodwardi()

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.

Cnemidolestes woodwardi Brongniart 1883
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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: 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 Protophasma woodwardii (type locality: 103635)