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Penthetria togoensis

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Penthetria togoensis was named by Fujiyama and Iwao (1974). Its type specimen is CESES 20002, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Kasayama, Inobo, Torimaru village (Togo), which is in a Piacenzian lacustrine - small siliciclastic in the Togo Formation of Japan.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1974Penthetria togoensis Fujiyama and Iwao p. 93 figs. Pl 1, figs 4a,b; text-fig 4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilyBibionoidea
familyBibionidae
subfamilyHesperininae(Walker 1848)
genusPenthetria
speciestogoensis

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.

†Penthetria togoensis Fujiyama and Iwao 1974
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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: Piacenzian or 3.60000 to 2.58800 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588Japan Penthetria togoensis (type locality: 160140)