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Urocerus patagonicus

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Siricidae

Taxonomy
Urocerus patagonicus was named by Fidalgo and Smith (1987). Its type specimen is PIL 13320, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Laguna del Hunco (Miguel Lillo coll), which is in a Ypresian crater lake tuff in Argentina.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1987Urocerus patagonicus Fidalgo and Smith p. 63 figs. 1-3
2010Urocerus patagonicus Taeger et al. p. 104

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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
—Unicalcarida
superfamilySiricoidea
familySiricidae()
subfamilySiricinae
genusUrocerus
speciespatagonicus

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.

†Urocerus patagonicus Fidalgo and Smith 1987
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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: Ypresian or 56.00000 to 47.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8Argentina (Chubut) Urocerus patagonicus (type locality: 151963)