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Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) excavata

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Taxonomy
Dicranomyia excavata was named by Cockerell and Haines (1921). Its type specimen is BMNH I.9946, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) excavata by Krzemiński (2019).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1921Dicranomyia excavata Cockerell p. 458 fig. 7
1921Dicranomyia excavata Cockerell and Haines p. 110
1922Dicranomyia exhumata Cockerell p. 17
2019Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) excavata Krzemiński p. 513 figs. Pl 3j; text-fig 34

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderDiptera
suborderNematoceraLatreille 1825
infraorderTipulomorpha
superfamilyTipuloidea
familyLimoniidae
subfamilyLimoniinae
genusDicranomyia
subgenusDicranomyia
speciesexcavata()

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.

†Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) excavata Cockerell and Haines 1921
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Invalid names: Dicranomyia exhumata Cockerell 1922 [synonym]
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: Priabonian or 37.71000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9United Kingdom (England) Dicranomyia excavata (123960) Dicranomyia excavata, Dicranomyia excavata (type locality: 123959)