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Sinosirex gigantea

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Sinosiricidae

Taxonomy
Sinosirex gigantea was named by Hong (1975). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Naizishangou, Qingquan, Weichang County, which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Yixian Formation of China. It is the type species of Sinosirex.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1975Sinosirex gigantea Hong p. 237 figs. Pl 1, figs 1-4; text-fig 3-5
1984Sinosirex gigantea Hong p. 183 figs. Pl 76, fig 1

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
superfamilySiricoidea
familySinosiricidae
genusSinosirex
speciesgigantea

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.

†Sinosirex gigantea Hong 1975
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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: Late/Upper Barremian or 125.77000 to 121.40000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Barremian125.77 - 121.4China (Hebei) Sinosirex gigantea (type locality: 155154)