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Meniscophasma erythrosticta

Insecta - Phasmatodea - Pterophasmatidae

Taxonomy
Meniscophasma erythrosticta was named by Yang et al. (2019). Its type specimen is EMTG BU-001967, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (EMTG collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar. It is the type species of Meniscophasma.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2019Meniscophasma erythrosticta Yang et al. p. 3 figs. 4, 5g

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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
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Eukinolabia
—Holophasmatodea
orderPhasmatodeaJacobson and Bianchi 1902
familyPterophasmatidae
genusMeniscophasma
specieserythrosticta

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.

†Meniscophasma erythrosticta Yang et al. 2019
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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 Cenomanian or 99.60000 to 93.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Myanmar Meniscophasma erythrosticta (type locality: 178121)