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Paleoplatyura macrocera

Insecta - Diptera - Keroplatidae

Taxonomy
Paleoplatyura macrocera was named by Meunier (1899). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Paleoplatyura.

It was recombined as Palaeoplatyura macrocera by Meunier (1917), Evenhuis (2006); it was misspelled as Palaeoplatyura macrocera by Edwards (1928), Wojtoń et al. (2019), Ševčík et al. (2021).

Entered
by M. Clapham on 2014-04-13

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1899Paleoplatyura macrocera Meunier p. 163 figs. Pl 2, fig 9
1909Palaeoplatyura macroneura Johannsen p. 10
1917Palaeoplatyura macrocera Meunier p. 90 figs. Pl 12, figs 48-50; pl 13, fig 51
1928Palaeoplatyura macrocera Edwards p. 25
2006Palaeoplatyura macrocera Evenhuis p. 94
2019Paleoplatyura macrocera Wojtoń et al. p. 36
2021Paleoplatyura macrocera Ševčík et al. p. 3

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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
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familyKeroplatidaeRondani 1856
genusPaleoplatyura
speciesmacrocera

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.

†Paleoplatyura macrocera Meunier 1899
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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: Priabonian or 37.71000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Paleoplatyura macrocera (type locality: 123927)