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Heterotermes eocenicus

Insecta - Blattodea - Rhinotermitidae

Taxonomy
Heterotermes eocenicus was named by Engel (2008). Its type specimen is B-163, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (University of Kansas SEMC Collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2008Heterotermes eocenicus Engel pp. 199-201 figs. 5, 6
2013Heterotermes eocenicus Krishna et al. p. 752

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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
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
Xylophagodea
infraorderIsoptera()
Euisoptera
Artisoptera
Icoisoptera
Neoisoptera
familyRhinotermitidae
subfamilyHeterotermitinae
genusHeterotermes
specieseocenicus

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.

Heterotermes eocenicus Engel 2008
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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 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Heterotermes eocenicus (type locality: 124370)