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Lepidocyrtus

Collembola - Entomobryomorpha - Entomobryidae

Taxonomy
Lepidocyrtus was named by Bourlet (1839). It is extant. It is the type genus of Lepidocyrtinae.

It was assigned to Entomobryidae by Laurentiaux (1953); to Entomobryinae by Christiansen (1971); and to Lepidocyrtinae by Sánchez-García and Engel (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1839Lepidocyrtus Bourlet
1953Lepidocyrtus Laurentiaux p. 413
1971Lepidocyrtus Christiansen p. 47
2016Lepidocyrtus Sánchez-García and Engel p. 36

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
—EllipuraBörner 1910
classCollembola(Lubbock 1871)
orderEntomobryomorphaBörner 1913
superfamilyEntomobryoideaSchaffer 1896
familyEntomobryidaeSchaffer 1896
subfamilyLepidocyrtinaeWahlgren 1906
genusLepidocyrtusBourlet 1839

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.

G. Lepidocyrtus Bourlet 1839
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†Lepidocyrtus ambricus Handschin 1926
Lepidocyrtus geayi Denis 1924
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitino
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:34
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:34
Source: o = order, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Priabonian to the top of the Langhian or 38.00000 to 13.82000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) L. ambricus (123927 124073)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Mexico (Chiapas) L. sp. (140210) L. sp., L. geayi (124474)
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic L. sp. (140492)
Langhian15.97 - 13.82China (Fujian) L. sp. (220273)