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Praeblattella elegans

Insecta - Blattodea - Mesoblattinidae

Taxonomy
Piniblattella elegans was named by Vršanský (1997). Its type specimen is PIN 1989/2405, a tegmen, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Baissa (PIN collection 1989, layer 11), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large siltstone/marl in the Zaza Formation of the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Praeblattella elegans by Vršanský (2003) and Vršanský (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1997Piniblattella elegans Vršanský p. 77 fig. 35
2003Praeblattella elegans Vršanský p. 127
2020Praeblattella elegans Vršanský p. 61

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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
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
—Solumblattodea
superfamilyBlattoidea
familyMesoblattinidae
genusPraeblattella
specieselegans()

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.

†Praeblattella elegans Vršanský 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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Aptian or 125.00000 to 113.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Aptian125.0 - 113.0Russian Federation (Buryatia) Piniblattella elegans (157780)