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Mantis boettingensis

Insecta - Mantodea - Mantidae

Taxonomy
Mantis boettingensis was named by Zeuner (1931). It is a mold. Its type locality is Böttingen (SMNS collection), which is in a Sarmatian spring travertine in the Thermalsinterkalk Formation of Germany.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1931Mantis boettingensis Zeuner p. 285 figs. Pl 7, fig 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderMantodeaBurmeister 1838
suborderNeomantodea
RankNameAuthor
infraorderEumantodea
—Spinomantodea
—Schizomantodea
—Artimantodea
—Cernomantodea
—Metamantodea
—LobipediaSaussure 1870
—Mantimorpha
—Heteromantodea
—Pareumantodea
—Calomantodea
—Promantidea
—Mantidea
superfamilyMantoidea
familyMantidae()
subfamilyMantinae
genusMantis()
speciesboettingensis

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.

†Mantis boettingensis Zeuner 1931
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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: Sarmatian or 12.70000 to 11.60800 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sarmatian12.7 - 11.608Germany (Wurttemberg) Mantis boettingensis (type locality: 113752)