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Willihennigia brevitarsis

Insecta - Diptera - Pleciofungivoridae

Taxonomy
Willihennigia brevitarsis was named by Kovalev (1985). Its type specimen is PIN 3000/1506, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Novospasskoye village (PIN collection 3000), which is in an Oxfordian lacustrine - small siliciclastic in the Ichetuy Formation of the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1985Willihennigia brevitarsis Kovalev p. 156 fig. 96
2024Willihennigia brevitarsis 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
genusWillihennigia
speciesbrevitarsis

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.

†Willihennigia brevitarsis 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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

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 (Buryat) Willihennigia brevitarsis (type locality: 105017)