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Eosialis dorisi

Insecta - Megaloptera - Sialidae

Taxonomy
Eosialis dorisi was named by Nel et al. (2002). Its type specimen is PA 2285, an exoskeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Oise amber, Le Quesnoy, which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in the Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais Formation of France. It is the type species of Eosialis.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2002Eosialis dorisi Nel et al. p. 314 figs. 1-5
2015Eosialis dorisi Liu et al.
2022Eosialis dorisi Martins et al. p. 50

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
superorderNeuropterida
Metaxyneuroptera
Eidoneuroptera
orderMegaloptera()
suborderNeomegaloptera
infraorderNothomegaloptera
familySialidae
subfamilySialinae
genusEosialis
speciesdorisi

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.

Eosialis dorisi Nel et al. 2002
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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: Ypresian or 56.00000 to 47.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8France (Oise) Eosialis dorisi (type locality: 123850)