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Moscheloptera phantasma

Insecta - Protoneuroptera - Permoberothidae

Taxonomy
Moscheloptera phantasma was named by Pérez-de la Fuente et al. (2022). Its type specimen is NHMMZ PE 2020/5005-LS, a forewing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Excavation east of Niedermoschel, road to Alsenz, which is in an Asselian lacustrine - large siliciclastic in the Meisenheim Formation of Germany. It is the type species of Moscheloptera.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2022Moscheloptera phantasma Pérez-de la Fuente et al. p. 11 fig. 6

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
superorderNeuropterida
Metaxyneuroptera
orderProtoneuroptera
familyPermoberothidae
genusMoscheloptera
speciesphantasma

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.

Moscheloptera phantasma Pérez-de la Fuente 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: Asselian or 298.90000 to 295.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Asselian298.9 - 295.5Germany Moscheloptera phantasma (type locality: 112604)