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Tibicina gigantea

Insecta - Hemiptera - Cicadidae

Taxonomy
Tibicina gigantea was named by Boulard and Riou (1989). Its type specimen is MPVR Riou 485, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Montagne d'Andance, Saint-Bauzile, Privas (Riou collection), which is in a Turolian crater lake diatomite in France.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1989Tibicina gigantea Boulard and Riou p. 349 fig. 1,2
2018Tibicina gigantea Moulds p. 460 figs. Pl 2, figs 5a,b

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Clareocercaria
—Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
—Condylognatha
orderHemiptera
suborderAuchenorrhyncha()
infraorderCicadomorphaEvans 1946
superfamilyCicadoidea
familyCicadidae()
subfamilyTibicininaeDistant 1905
tribeTibicininiDistant 1905
genusTibicinaKolenati 1857
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.

†Tibicina gigantea Boulard and Riou 1989
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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: Turolian or 8.72500 to 5.09000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Turolian8.725 - 5.09France (Ardèche) Tibicina gigantea (type locality: 156164)