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Palaeodocosia brachycamptites

Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae

Taxonomy
Palaeotrichonta brachycamptites was named by Meunier (1904). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

It was synonymized subjectively with Palaeodocosia brachypezoides by Edwards (1940); it was recombined as Palaeodocosia brachycamptites by Evenhuis (1994) and Oliveira and Amorim (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1904Palaeotrichonta brachycamptites Meunier p. 179
1909Palaeotrichonta brachycamptites Johannsen p. 93
1994Palaeodocosia brachycamptites Evenhuis
2021Palaeodocosia brachycamptites Oliveira and Amorim p. 62

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familyMycetophilidae
subfamilyGnoristinae(Edwards 1925)
genusPalaeodocosia
speciesbrachycamptites()

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.

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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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Priabonian or 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Palaeotrichonta brachycamptites (123927)