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Mesoraphidia amoena

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae

Taxonomy
Mesoraphidia amoena was named by Ren (1997). Its type specimen is LB95113, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Beipiao City, unspecified locality (GMC Beijing coll), which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Yixian Formation of China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1997Mesoraphidia amoena Ren p. 181 figs. Pl 1, fig 2; text-fig 8
2002Mesoraphidia amoena Engel p. 18
2015Mesoraphidia amoena Lu et al. p. 565
2020Mesoraphidia amoena Lyu et al. p. 1752
2023Mesoraphidia amoena Zhang et al. p. 2 fig. 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
superorderNeuropterida
orderRaphidioptera()
suborderRaphidiomorpha
Raphidiformia
familyMesoraphidiidae
subfamilyMesoraphidiinae
genusMesoraphidia
speciesamoena

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.

Mesoraphidia amoena Ren 1997
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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: base of the Late/Upper Barremian to the top of the Aptian or 130.00000 to 113.00000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Barremian130.0 - 125.45China (Liaoning) Mesoraphidia amoena (type locality: 155209 188103)
Aptian125.0 - 113.0China (Shandong) Mesoraphidia amoena (201905)