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Prosoeca (Palembolus) florigera

Insecta - Diptera - Nemestrinidae

Taxonomy
Palembolus florigerus was named by Scudder (1878). Its type specimen is 405, an exoskeleton (wonderfully preserved), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado. It is the type species of Palembolus.

It was recombined as Prosoeca (Palembolus) florigera by Bequaert and Carpenter (1936), Dikow (2009).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1878Palembolus florigerus Scudder pp. 528-529
1885Palembolus florigerus Scudder p. 808 fig. 1076
1936Prosoeca (Palembolus) florigera Bequaert and Carpenter p. 403 figs. 6, 7.5
2009Prosoeca (Palembolus) florigera Dikow p. 145

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—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
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
—Homeodactyla
superfamilyNemestrinoideaMacquart 1834
familyNemestrinidaeMacquart 1834
subfamilyNemestrininae
genusProsoecaSchiner 1867
subgenusPalembolus()
speciesflorigera()

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: Chadronian or 37.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.0 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Palembolus florigerus (type locality: 106384)