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Proraphidia gomezi

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae

Taxonomy
Proraphidia gomezi was named by Jepson and Jarzembowski (2008). Its type specimen is L.29, an exoskeleton (piece of thorax and overlapping fore and hind wings), and it is an impression. Its type locality is Santa Maria de Meya, main quarry, which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large limestone in the La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation of Spain.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2008Proraphidia gomezi Jepson and Jarzembowski p. 195 fig. 2
2015Proraphidia gomezi Lu et al. p. 566

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
superorderNeuropterida
orderRaphidioptera()
suborderRaphidiomorpha
—Raphidiformia
familyMesoraphidiidae
subfamilyMesoraphidiinae
genusProraphidia
speciesgomezi

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.

†Proraphidia gomezi Jepson and Jarzembowski 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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Early/Lower Barremian or 130.00000 to 125.45000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Barremian130.0 - 125.45Spain Proraphidia sp. (type locality: 152684)