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Palaeosycorax tertiariae

Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

Taxonomy
Palaeosycorax tertiariae was named by Meunier (1905). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Klebs collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Palaeosycorax.

It was recombined as Nemopalpus tertiariae by Hennig (1972); it was recombined as Nemapalpus tertiariae by Wagner (2006).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1905Palaeosycorax tertiariae Meunier p. 50 figs. 1-4
1972Nemopalpus tertiariae Hennig p. 62 figs. 5, 41-44, 47, 48
2006Nemapalpus tertiariae Wagner p. 87 figs. 11-19
2017Palaeosycorax tertiariae Wagner p. 109

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderDiptera
infraorderPsychodomorpha
superfamilyPsychodoidea
familyPsychodidae
subfamilyBruchomyiinae
genusPalaeosycorax
speciestertiariae

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.

†Palaeosycorax tertiariae Meunier 1905
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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: Priabonian or 37.71000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Palaeosycorax tertiariae (type locality: 124073)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Russian Federation Nemapalpus tertiariae (123419)