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Karoontina magna

Insecta - Hemiptera - Palaeontinidae

Taxonomy
Fletcheriana magna was named by Riek (1976). Its type specimen is C-Dt II 784ab, a forewing (missing clavus & apex), and it is an impression. Its type locality is Bird's River (C-Dt II), which is in a Carnian lacustrine - small shale in the Molteno Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Karoontina.

It was recombined as Karoontina magna by Shcherbakov (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1976Fletcheriana magna Riek p. 808 figs. Fig 11; Pl 4 fig 2
2022Karoontina magna Shcherbakov p. 355

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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
RankNameAuthor
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Clareocercaria
Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
Condylognatha
orderHemiptera
suborderAuchenorrhyncha()
infraorderCicadomorphaEvans 1946
infraorderProsbolomorphaPopov 1980
superfamilyPalaeontinoideaHandlirsch 1906
familyPalaeontinidae
genusKaroontina
speciesmagna()

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.

Karoontina magna Riek 1976
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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: Carnian or 237.00000 to 227.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Carnian237.0 - 227.3South Africa (Eastern Cape) Fletcheriana magna (type locality: 115196)