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Pleciomima porthos

Insecta - Diptera - Antefungivoridae

Taxonomy
Pleciomima porthos was named by Kovalev (1990). Its type specimen is PIN 3795/959, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Shev'ya site (PIN collection 3795), which is in a Tithonian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Ukurei Formation of the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1990Pleciomima porthos Kovalev p. 162 fig. 126

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilyAnisopodoidea
familyAntefungivoridae()
subfamilyPleciomiminae
genusPleciomima
speciesporthos

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.

†Pleciomima porthos Kovalev 1990
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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: Tithonian or 152.10000 to 145.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Tithonian152.1 - 145.0Russian Federation (Chita) Pleciomima porthos (type locality: 125407)