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Praeichneumon townesi

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Praeichneumonidae

Taxonomy
Praeichneumon townesi was named by Rasnitsyn (1983). Its type specimen is PIN 3965/416, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Khutel-Khara, PIN collection 3965, which is in a Valanginian/Barremian lacustrine - small siliciclastic in the Tsagaantsav Formation of Mongolia. It is the type species of Praeichneumon.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1983Praeichneumon townesi Rasnitsyn p. 263 fig. 1,3,4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
superfamilyIchneumonoidea
familyPraeichneumonidae
genusPraeichneumon
speciestownesi

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.

Praeichneumon townesi Rasnitsyn 1983
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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: base of the Valanginian to the top of the Barremian or 139.80000 to 125.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Valanginian - Barremian139.8 - 125.0Mongolia (Dornogov) Praeichneumon townesi (type locality: 113407)