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Caenocholax palusaxus

Insecta - Strepsiptera - Myrmecolacidae

Taxonomy
Caenocholax palusaxus was named by Antell and Kathirithamby (2016). Its type specimen is YPM IP 320328, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Gus' Pit, west of Rio Blanco store, which is in a Ypresian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Green River Formation of Colorado.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2016Caenocholax palusaxus Antell and Kathirithamby p. 169 fig. 4,5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderStrepsipteraKirby 1813
—Eteostrepsiptera
suborderNeostrepsiptera
infraorderEustrepsiptera
—Stylopidia(Kinzelbach 1969)
—Stylopiformia(Kinzelbach 1971)
superfamilyStylopoideaKirby 1813
familyMyrmecolacidaeSaunders 1872
genusCaenocholaxPierce 1909
speciespalusaxus

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.

†Caenocholax palusaxus Antell and Kathirithamby 2016
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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: Ypresian or 56.00000 to 47.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8USA (Colorado) Caenocholax palusaxus (type locality: 182249)