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Tetragoneura peritula

Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae

Taxonomy
Tetragoneura peritula was named by Cockerell (1909). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Six Miles North of Rifle, which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large shale in Colorado.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1909Tetragoneura peritula Cockerell p. 53
1909Tetragoneura peritula Johannsen p. 35
2021Tetragoneura peritula Oliveira and Amorim p. 102

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familyMycetophilidae
subfamilyTetragoneurinae
genusTetragoneuraWinnertz 1846
speciesperitula

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.

†Tetragoneura peritula Cockerell 1909
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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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Bridgerian or 50.30000 to 46.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bridgerian50.3 - 46.2USA (Colorado) Tetragoneura peritula (type locality: 106481)