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Cretosirex xiaoi

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Siricidae

Taxonomy
Cretosirex xiaoi was named by Wang et al. (2018). Its type specimen is e Palaeontological Center, Bohai University HGI032, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Dawangzhangzi, Lingyuan City (Bohai University coll), which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large shale in the Yixian Formation of China. It is the type species of Cretosirex.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2018Cretosirex xiaoi Wang et al. p. 197 figs. 2-4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
superfamilySiricoidea
familySiricidae()
genusCretosirex
speciesxiaoi

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.

Cretosirex xiaoi Wang et al. 2018
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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: Late/Upper Barremian or 130.00000 to 125.45000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Barremian130.0 - 125.45China (Liaoning) Cretosirex xiaoi (type locality: 194296)