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Culicoides sphenostylus
Taxonomy
Culicoides sphenostylus was named by Remm (1976). Its type specimen is PIN 3311/405, an exoskeleton (male), and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311), which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in the Kheta Formation of the Russian Federation.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1976 | Culicoides sphenostylus Remm pp. 347, 349 figs. 3c-g |
| 1996 | Culicoides sphenostylus Szadziewski p. 61 figs. 33a-h |
| 2013 | Culicoides sphenostylus Borkent p. 100 |
| 2018 | Culicoides sphenostylus Szadziewski p. 223 |
| 2020 | Culicoides sphenostylus Borkent and Dominiak p. 141 |
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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.
†Culicoides sphenostylus Remm 1976
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Santonian or 85.80000 to 83.50000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Santonian | Russian Federation | Culicoides sphenostylus (type locality: 35056) |