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Xyela (Pinicolites) graciosa

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Xyelidae

Taxonomy
Pinicolites graciosus was named by Meunier (1920). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Rott (Bauckhorn coll), which is in a MP 30 lacustrine - large lignite in Germany. It is the type species of Pinicolites.

It was recombined as Pleroneura graciosa by Statz (1936); it was recombined as Xyela (Pinicolites) graciosa by Rasnitsyn (1995) and Taeger et al. (2010).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1920Pinicolites graciosus Meunier p. 896 figs. Pl 1, fig 5; text-fig 4
1936Pleroneura graciosa Statz p. 262 fig. 1
1995Xyela (Pinicolites) graciosa Rasnitsyn p. 2 figs. 1-4
2010Xyela (Pinicolites) graciosa Taeger et al. p. 682

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
superfamilyXyeloidea
familyXyelidae
subfamilyXyelinae
tribeXyelini
genusXyelaDalman 1819
subgenusPinicolites()
speciesgraciosa()

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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Chattian or 28.10000 to 23.03000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen) Pinicolites graciosus (138696)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) Pleuroneura graciosa (122010)