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Dasyhelea dara

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Dasyhelea dara was named by Pierce (1966). Its type specimen is LACMIP S9127, a nymph (pupa), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Site 3A, Calico Hills, which is in a Hemingfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Barstow Formation of California.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1966Dasyhelea dara Pierce p. 88 figs. 6-8
1997Dasyhelea dara Borkent and Wirth p. 53
2013Dasyhelea dara Borkent p. 62

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidae
subfamilyForcipomyiinaeLenz 1934
tribeDasyheleini
genusDasyheleaKieffer 1913
speciesdara

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.

Dasyhelea dara Pierce 1966
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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: Hemingfordian or 20.43000 to 15.97000 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97USA (California) Dasyhelea dara (152225)
Hemingfordian20.43 - 15.97USA (California) Dasyhelea dara (144521 152215 152216 152217 152219 152221 152222 type locality: 152226 152229)