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Meimuna protopalifera

Insecta - Hemiptera - Cicadidae

Taxonomy
Meimuna protopalifera was named by Fujiyama (1969). Its type specimen is IGPS 36741, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Kinomata Bridge, south of Itamuro Hot Spring, Nasu, which is in a Miocene terrestrial mudstone in Japan.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1969Meimuna protopalifera Fujiyama p. 864 figs. Pl 1, fig 1; text-fig 1b
2018Meimuna protopalifera Moulds p. 456 fig. 10a,b

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Clareocercaria
—Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
—Condylognatha
orderHemiptera
suborderAuchenorrhyncha()
infraorderCicadomorphaEvans 1946
superfamilyCicadoidea
familyCicadidae()
subfamilyCicadinae()
tribeDundubiiniDistant 1906
subtribeAolina
genusMeimunaDistant 1905
speciesprotopalifera

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.

†Meimuna protopalifera Fujiyama 1969
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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: Early/Lower Miocene or 23.04000 to 15.98000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Miocene23.04 - 15.98Japan Meimuna protopalifera (type locality: 167773)