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Grimaldiraphidia luzzii

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae

Taxonomy
Mesoraphidia luzzii was named by Grimaldi (2000). Its type specimen is AMNH NJ-435, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is White Oaks Pit (Old Crossman's Clay Pits), which is in a Turonian delta plain amber/lignite in the Raritan Formation of New Jersey.

It was recombined as Grimaldiraphidia luzzii by Bechly and Wolf-Schwenninger (2011) and Lu et al. (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2000Mesoraphidia luzzii Grimaldi p. 261 fig. 1,22a
2002Mesoraphidia luzzii Engel p. 19
2011Grimaldiraphidia luzzii Bechly and Wolf-Schwenninger p. 234
2015Grimaldiraphidia luzzii Lu et al. p. 565

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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
tribeNanoraphidiini
genusGrimaldiraphidia
speciesluzzii()

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.

Grimaldiraphidia luzzii Grimaldi 2000
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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: Turonian or 93.90000 to 89.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Turonian93.9 - 89.8USA (New Jersey) Mesoraphidia luzzii (type locality: 110895)