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Protosiberopterix antitheton

Insecta - Lepidoptera - Eolepidopterigidae

Taxonomy
Protosiberopterix antitheton was named by Melnitsky and Ivanov (2020). Its type specimen is PIN 5340/1489, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Khasurty (PIN collection 5340), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - small siliciclastic in the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Protosiberopterix.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2020Protosiberopterix antitheton Melnitsky and Ivanov p. 1345 figs. 70a, 71a

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
RankNameAuthor
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAmphiesmenopteraKiriakoff 1948
—Metamphiesmenoptera
—Euamphiesmenoptera
—Panendymenoptera
—Endymenoptera
—Stelloptera
orderLepidoptera
suborderEolepidopterigina
superfamilyEolepidopterigoidea
familyEolepidopterigidae
genusProtosiberopterix
speciesantitheton

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.

†Protosiberopterix antitheton Melnitsky and Ivanov 2020
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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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Aptian or 125.00000 to 113.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Aptian125.0 - 113.0Russian Federation (Buryatia) Protosiberopterix antitheton (type locality: 113350)