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Plecia pristina
Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae
Taxonomy
Plecia pristina was named by Hardy (1971). Its type specimen is UCMP 12878, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is UCMP B-7044, Quechula, which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Mexico.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1971 | Plecia pristina Hardy p. 65 fig. 1 |
| 2013 | Plecia pristina Skartveit and Bechly p. 99 fig. 1,2 |
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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.
†Plecia pristina Hardy 1971
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Early/Lower Miocene or 20.44000 to 15.97000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Miocene | Mexico (Chiapas) | Plecia pristina (type locality: 140210) | |
| Burdigalian - Langhian | Dominican Republic | Plecia pristina (122474) |