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Orthocentrus defossus

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Ichneumonidae

Taxonomy
Orthocentrus defossus was named by Brues (1910). Its type specimen is MCZ 2238, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1910Orthocentrus defossus Brues p. 62 fig. 47
2022Orthocentrus defossus Spasojevic et al. p. 195 fig. 7

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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
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
superfamilyIchneumonoidea
familyIchneumonidae()
PimpliformesWahl 1990
subfamilyOrthocentrinae()
genusOrthocentrus
speciesdefossus

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.

Orthocentrus defossus Brues 1910
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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: Chadronian or 37.20000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Orthocentrus defossus (type locality: 106384)