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Mastotermes heerii
Taxonomy
Termopsis heerii was named by Goeppert (1855). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Schossnitz (Sosnica), which is in a Miocene lacustrine claystone in Poland.
It was recombined as Mastotermes heeri by Emerson (1933) and Weidner (1968); it was misspelled as Mastotermes heeri by Snyder (1949); it was considered a nomen dubium by Nel and Paicheler (1993); it was recombined as Mastotermes heerii by Emerson (1965) and Krishna et al. (2013).
It was recombined as Mastotermes heeri by Emerson (1933) and Weidner (1968); it was misspelled as Mastotermes heeri by Snyder (1949); it was considered a nomen dubium by Nel and Paicheler (1993); it was recombined as Mastotermes heerii by Emerson (1965) and Krishna et al. (2013).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1855 | Termopsis heerii Goeppert p. 7 figs. Pl 26, fig 53 |
| 1870 | Hodotermes heerianus Assmann p. 45 figs. Pl 1, figs 7,7a |
| 1933 | Mastotermes heeri Emerson p. 191 |
| 1949 | Mastotermes heeri Snyder p. 353 |
| 1965 | Mastotermes heerii Emerson p. 30 |
| 1968 | Mastotermes heeri Weidner p. 20 |
| 2013 | Mastotermes heerii Krishna et al. p. 239 |
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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.
†Mastotermes heerii Goeppert 1855
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Miocene or 11.60800 to 5.33300 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Miocene | Poland | Termopsis heerii (type locality: 138936) |