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Penthetria intermedia
Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae
Taxonomy
Mycetophaetus intermedius was named by Scudder (1892). Its type specimen is MCZ 3986, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado. It is the type species of Mycetophaetus.
It was recombined as Plecia intermedia by Rice (1959); it was recombined as Penthetria intermedia by Fitzgerald (1999).
It was recombined as Plecia intermedia by Rice (1959); it was recombined as Penthetria intermedia by Fitzgerald (1999).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1892 | Mycetophaetus intermedius Scudder p. 20 figs. Pl II fig 5 |
| 1909 | Mycetophaetus intermedius Johannsen p. 8 |
| 1959 | Plecia intermedia Rice p. 9 figs. Fig 3 No. 10 |
| 1999 | Penthetria intermedia Fitzgerald p. 186 |
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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.
†Penthetria intermedia Scudder 1892
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Chadronian or 56.00000 to 33.90000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Ypresian | Canada (British Columbia) | Plecia intermedia (120981) | |
| Chadronian | USA (Colorado) | Mycetophaetus intermedius (type locality: 106384) |