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Opsiomylacris posthumus

Insecta - Blattodea - Mylacridae

Taxonomy
Opsiomylacris posthumus was named by Müller (1957). Its type specimen is GPIU Jena P303, a tegmen, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Lochbrunnen excavation, Oberhof-Obere Schweizerhütte Road, which is in a Sakmarian lacustrine shale in the Oberhof Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Opsiomylacris (Opsiomylacris) posthuma by Müller (1975).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1957Opsiomylacris posthumus Müller p. 446 figs. Pl 1, figs 1,2; text-fig 1
1975Opsiomylacris (Opsiomylacris) posthuma Müller p. 62 figs. Pl 1 fig 1; text-fig 4
1983Opsiomylacris posthumus Schneider p. 113

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
familyMylacridae()
genusOpsiomylacris
speciesposthumus

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.

†Opsiomylacris posthumus Müller 1957
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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: Sakmarian or 293.52000 to 290.10000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sakmarian293.52 - 290.1Germany (Thüringer Wald) Opsiomylacris posthumus (type locality: 160132)