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Blattidium fragile

Insecta - Blattodea - Mesoblattinidae

Taxonomy
Blattidium fragile was named by Heer (1868). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Atanekerdluk (1850s collections), which is in a Selandian lacustrine mudstone in the Atanikerluk Formation of Greenland.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1868Blattidium fragile Heer p. 130 figs. Pl 50, fig 13
1883Blattidium fragile Heer p. 146
1907Blattidium fragile Handlirsch p. 696

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
familyMesoblattinidae
genusBlattidium
speciesfragile

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.

†Blattidium fragile Heer 1868
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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: Selandian or 61.66000 to 59.24000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Selandian61.66 - 59.24Greenland Blattidium fragile (type locality: 152291)