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Grimaldiraphidia purbeckensis

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae

Taxonomy
Mesoraphidia purbeckensis was named by Jepson et al. (2009). Its type specimen is MNEMG 2007/47, a forewing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Durlston Bay, Bed DB175, Swanage (MNEMG collection), which is in a Berriasian lagoonal siliciclastic in the Durlston Formation of the United Kingdom.

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

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2009Mesoraphidia purbeckensis Jepson et al. p. 529 fig. 4
2011Grimaldiraphidia purbeckensis Bechly and Wolf-Schwenninger p. 234
2015Grimaldiraphidia purbeckensis 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
tribeNanoraphidiini
genusGrimaldiraphidia
speciespurbeckensis()

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 purbeckensis Jepson et al. 2009
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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: Late/Upper Berriasian or 145.00000 to 140.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Berriasian145.0 - 140.2United Kingdom (England) Mesoraphidia purbeckensis (type locality: 103833)