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Xinjiangia tashidianensis

Insecta - Mecoptera - Mesopsychidae

Taxonomy
Xinjiangia tashidianensis was named by Hong (1983). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Tashidian, sample H76, Korla, which is in a Bajocian/Bathonian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Kezileinuer Formation of China.

It was recombined as Protorthophlebia (Protorthophlebia) tashidianensis by Hong and Zhang (2007).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1983Xinjiangia tashidianensis Hong p. 102 figs. Pl 19, figs 6,7; text-fig 95
2007Protorthophlebia (Protorthophlebia) tashidianensis Hong and Zhang p. 33

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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
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderMecopteraPackard 1886
superfamilyMesopsychoidea
familyMesopsychidae
genusXinjiangia
speciestashidianensis

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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Bajocian to the top of the Bathonian or 170.30000 to 166.10000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bajocian - Bathonian170.3 - 166.1China (Xinjiang) Xinjiangia tashidianensis (type locality: 154835)