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Spaniotoma conservata

Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae

Taxonomy
Spaniotoma conservata was named by Boesel (1937). Its type specimen is ROM 31, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Cedar Lake (ROM collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in Canada.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Spaniotoma conservata Boesel p. 52 figs. 7E, 10B

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
suborderNematoceraLatreille 1825
familyChironomidaeMacquart 1838
subfamilyOrthocladiinaeLenz 1921
genusSpaniotomaPhilippi 1865
speciesconservata

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.

Spaniotoma conservata Boesel 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: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Canada (Manitoba) Spaniotoma conservata (type locality: 122356)