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Roqueia alpina

Insecta - Cnemidolestodea - Roqueiidae

Taxonomy
Roqueia alpina was named by Nel et al. (2022). Its type specimen is Musée d’Histoire Naturelle Grenoble Fa 0145, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Villaret slag heap, Susville, La Mure, which is in a Stephanian A fluvial-lacustrine shale in France. It is the type species of Roqueia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2022Roqueia alpina Nel et al. p. 265 fig. 1,2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
superorderArchaeorthoptera
orderCnemidolestodea
familyRoqueiidae
genusRoqueia
speciesalpina

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.

†Roqueia alpina Nel 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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Stephanian A or 305.10000 to 301.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Stephanian A305.1 - 301.5France Roqueia alpina (type locality: 229588)