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Cylindrotoma borealis

Insecta - Diptera - Cylindrotomidae

Taxonomy
Cylindrotoma borealis was named by Freiwald (1991). Its type specimen is KM 994, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Island of Fur (Copenhagen Museum coll), which is in a Ypresian offshore ramp mudstone in the Moler Formation of Denmark.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1991Cylindrotoma borealis Freiwald p. 112 figs. Pl 3, figs 5,6; text-fig 9

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
suborderNematoceraLatreille 1825
infraorderTipulomorpha
superfamilyTipuloidea
familyCylindrotomidae
subfamilyCylindrotominae
genusCylindrotomaMacquart 1834
speciesborealis

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.

†Cylindrotoma borealis Freiwald 1991
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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: Ypresian or 56.00000 to 47.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8Denmark Cylindrotoma borealis (type locality: 123997)