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Sciophila hyatti

Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae

Taxonomy
Sciophila hyattii was named by Scudder (1890). Its type specimen is Lee 99, a wing (wing & fragments of leg), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Green River (Lee Collection), which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large diatomite/shale in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.

It was corrected as Sciophila hyatti by Evenhuis (1994), Oliveira and Amorim (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Sciophila hyattii Scudder p. 597 figs. Pl 10 fig 6
1994Sciophila hyatti Evenhuis p. 166
2021Sciophila hyatti Oliveira and Amorim

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familyMycetophilidae
subfamilySciophilinae
genusSciophila
specieshyatti()

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.

†Sciophila hyatti Scudder 1890
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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: Bridgerian or 50.50000 to 46.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bridgerian50.5 - 46.2USA (Wyoming) Sciophila hyattii (type locality: 122092)