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Colubrosopterum karooensis

Insecta - Grylloblattodea - Liomopteridae

Taxonomy
Colubrosopterum karooensis was named by Cawood and Nel (2022). Its type specimen is AM11389, a forewing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Onder Karoo, near Sutherland, which is in a Wordian delta plain mudstone in the Abrahamskraal Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Colubrosopterum.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2022Colubrosopterum karooensis Cawood and Nel p. 458 fig. 4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
RankNameAuthor
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Xenonomia
orderGrylloblattodeaWalker 1914
familyLiomopteridae
genusColubrosopterum
specieskarooensis

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.

†Colubrosopterum karooensis Cawood and Nel 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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Wordian or 266.90000 to 264.28000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Wordian266.9 - 264.28South Africa Colubrosopterum karooensis (type locality: 226396)