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Mastotermes picardi

Insecta - Blattodea - Mastotermitidae

Taxonomy
Mastotermes picardi was named by Nel and Paicheler (1993). Its type specimen is MNHN IPM-R.54196, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Camoins-les-Bains (MNHN coll), which is in an Oligocene lacustrine marl in France.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1993Mastotermes picardi Nel and Paicheler p. 110 figs. 7-10
2013Mastotermes picardi Krishna et al. p. 240

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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
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
—Xylophagodea
infraorderIsoptera()
familyMastotermitidae(Desneux 1904)
subfamilyMastotermitinaeDesneux 1904
genusMastotermes
speciespicardi

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 picardi Nel and Paicheler 1993
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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: Late/Upper Oligocene or 27.30000 to 23.04000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Oligocene27.3 - 23.04France (Bouches-du-Rhone) Mastotermes picardi (type locality: 113989)