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Bryanka elegans

Insecta - Diptera - Pleciofungivoridae

Taxonomy
Bryanka elegans was named by Kovalev (1985). Its type specimen is PIN 2364/1(2), an exoskeleton (female), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Koltygei (PIN collection 2364), which is in an Oxfordian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Ichetuy Formation of the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1985Bryanka elegans Kovalev p. 139 figs. 80; Pl VII fig 1
2024Bryanka elegans Zhang et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familyPleciofungivoridae
genusBryanka
specieselegans

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.

†Bryanka elegans Kovalev 1985
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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: Oxfordian or 163.50000 to 157.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Oxfordian163.5 - 157.3Russian Federation Bryanka elegans (type locality: 144144)