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Mastotermes minor

Insecta - Blattodea - Mastotermitidae

Taxonomy
Mastotermes minor was named by Pongrácz (1928). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Radoboj (Geologischen Bundesanstalt Collection), which is in a Sarmatian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in Croatia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1928Mastotermes minor Pongrácz p. 105 fig. 2a,4
1949Mastotermes minor Snyder p. 354
1965Mastotermes minor Emerson p. 33
1993Mastotermes minor Nel and Paicheler p. 107
2013Mastotermes minor Krishna et al. p. 239

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
—Solumblattodea
superfamilyBlattoidea
—Kittrickea
—Xylophagodea
—Isoptera()
familyMastotermitidae(Desneux 1904)
subfamilyMastotermitinaeDesneux 1904
genusMastotermes
speciesminor

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.

†Mastotermes minor Pongrácz 1928
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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: Sarmatian or 12.80000 to 11.63000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sarmatian12.8 - 11.63Croatia Mastotermes minor (type locality: 113698)