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Bibio janus

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Bibio janus was named by von Heyden (1870). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Rott (Heymann coll), which is in a MP 30 lacustrine - large shale in the Rott Formation of Germany.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1870Bibio janus von Heyden p. 257 figs. Pl 45, fig 25
1915Bibio janus Meunier p. 215 figs. Pl 24, fig 2
2021Bibio janus Skartveit and Wedmann p. 47

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
RankNameAuthor
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilyBibionoidea
familyBibionidae
subfamilyBibioninae
tribeBibionini
subtribeBibionina
genusBibio
speciesjanus

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.

†Bibio janus von Heyden 1870
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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: Chattian or 28.10000 to 23.03000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen) Bibio janus (138696)
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany Bibio janus (type locality: 154946)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) Bibio sp 1 (122010)