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Mesotipula spasskia

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Taxonomy
Praearchitipula spasskia was named by Kalugina (1985). Its type specimen is PIN 3000/1470, a wing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Novospasskoye village (PIN collection 3000), which is in an Oxfordian lacustrine - small siliciclastic in the Ichetuy Formation of the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Mesotipula spasskia by Gao et al. (2015) and Gao et al. (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1985Praearchitipula spasskia Kalugina p. 59 fig. 25
2015Mesotipula spasskia Gao et al. p. 247

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
suborderNematoceraLatreille 1825
infraorderTipulomorpha
superfamilyTipuloidea
familyLimoniidae
subfamilyArchitipulinae()
genusMesotipula
speciesspasskia()

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.

Mesotipula spasskia Kalugina 1985
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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: Oxfordian or 163.50000 to 157.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Oxfordian163.5 - 157.3Russian Federation (Buryat) Praearchitipula spasskia (type locality: 105017)