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Meunierohelea nielseni

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Meunierohelea nielseni was named by Szadziewski (1988). Its type specimen is ZMC 17, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Danish Amber (University of Copenhagen ZMUC, NHMD Collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Denmark. It is the type species of Meunierohelea.

It was recombined as Chimaerohelea nielseni by Szadziewski (1993).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1988Meunierohelea nielseni Szadziewski p. 150 figs. 451-472
1993Chimaerohelea nielseni Szadziewski p. 622 fig. 51,55
1997Meunierohelea nielseni Borkent and Wirth p. 101
2011Meunierohelea nielseni Sontag and Szadziewski p. 790
2013Meunierohelea nielseni Borkent p. 125
2018Meunierohelea nielseni Szadziewski p. 226
2020Meunierohelea nielseni Borkent and Dominiak p. 165

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidae
subfamilyCeratopogoninae
tribeCeratopogonini
genusMeunierohelea
speciesnielseni

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.

†Meunierohelea nielseni Szadziewski 1988
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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: Priabonian or 37.71000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Germany (Halle) Chimaerohelea nielseni (129228)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Poland Meunierohelea nielseni (120813)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Denmark Meunierohelea nielseni (type locality: 123762)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Ukraine Meunierohelea nielseni (122997)