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Palaeopetia laiyangensis

Insecta - Diptera - Ironomyiidae

Taxonomy
Palaeopetia laiyangensis was named by Zhang (1987). Its type specimen is Shandong Provincial Museum L84130, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Nanligezhuang, Tuanwang Town, Laiyang City (Shandong Prov. Mus.), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large shale in the Laiyang Formation of China. It is the type species of Palaeopetia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1987Palaeopetia laiyangensis Zhang p. 596 figs. Pl 1, fig 1; text-fig 3
2018Palaeopetia laiyangensis Grimaldi p. 62

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
RankNameAuthor
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
—Heterodactyla
—Eremoneura
suborderCyclorrhapha()
superfamilyPlatypezoideaFallen 1815
familyIronomyiidae
subfamilySinolestinae
genusPalaeopetia
specieslaiyangensis

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.

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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: Aptian or 125.00000 to 113.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Aptian125.0 - 113.0China (Shandong) Palaeopetia laiyangensis (type locality: 106313)