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Luanpingites flavus

Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae

Taxonomy
Luanpingites flavus was named by Zhang (1986). Its type specimen is Shandong Provincial Museum L80648, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Zhouyingzi village, Luoping County (Shandong Museum collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Jiulongshan Formation of China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1986Luanpingites flavus Zhang p. 51 figs. Pl 1, figs 1,2; text-fig 3
2024Luanpingites flavus Ashe et al. p. 12

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyChironomidaeMacquart 1838
subfamilyPodonominaeThienemann and Edwards 1837
genusLuanpingites
speciesflavus

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.

†Luanpingites flavus Zhang 1986
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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: base of the Callovian to the top of the Oxfordian or 165.30000 to 154.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Callovian - Oxfordian165.3 - 154.8China (Hebei) Luanpingites flavus (type locality: 156314)