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Parastylotermes washingtonensis

Insecta - Blattodea - Stylotermitidae

Taxonomy
Stylotermes washingtonensis was named by Snyder (1931). Its type specimen is MCZ 2943, a forewing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Near Spokane, which is in a Langhian lacustrine - small mudstone in the Latah Formation of Washington.

It was recombined as Parastylotermes washingtonensis by Snyder (1949), Pierce (1958), Nel and Paicheler (1993), Fontes and Vulcano (1998) and Krishna et al. (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1931Stylotermes washingtonensis Snyder p. 317 figs. Pl I fig 5
1949Parastylotermes washingtonensis Snyder p. 366
1958Parastylotermes washingtonensis Pierce p. 23
1993Parastylotermes washingtonensis Nel and Paicheler p. 161
1998Parastylotermes washingtonensis Fontes and Vulcano p. 284
2013Parastylotermes washingtonensis Krishna et al. p. 632

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
Xylophagodea
infraorderIsoptera()
Euisoptera
Artisoptera
Icoisoptera
Neoisoptera
familyStylotermitidae(Holmgren and Holmgren 1917)
genusParastylotermes
specieswashingtonensis()

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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Langhian or 15.97000 to 13.82000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Langhian15.97 - 13.82USA (Washington) Stylotermes washingtonensis (type locality: 140652)