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Cantabra soplao

Insecta - Mecoptera - Cantabridae

Taxonomy
Cantabra soplao was named by Soszyńska-Maj et al. (2022). Its type specimen is CES-437, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is El Soplao amber, which is in an Albian terrestrial amber in the Las Penosas Formation of Spain. It is the type species of Cantabra.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2022Cantabra soplao Soszyńska-Maj et al. p. 7 figs. 3A-G, 4A-E

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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
Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderMecopteraPackard 1886
suborderPistillifera
infraorderOpisthogonopora
Panorpomorpha
Panorpina
Panorpini
superfamilyPanorpoidea
familyCantabridae
genusCantabra
speciessoplao

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.

Cantabra soplao Soszyńska-Maj et al. 2022
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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 Albian or 112.03000 to 109.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Albian112.03 - 109.0Spain Cantabra soplao (type locality: 109438)