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Afrozygopteron inexpectatus

Insecta - Luiseiidae

Taxonomy
Afrozygopteron inexpectatus was named by Nel et al. (2022). Its type specimen is AM11296, a wing, 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 Afrozygopteron.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2022Afrozygopteron inexpectatus Nel et al. p. 871 fig. 1

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
infraclassHydropalaeopteraRohdendorf 1969
Euhydropalaeoptera
OdonatopteraMartynov 1932
RankNameAuthor
Palaeodonatoptera
Plesiodonatoptera
Apodonatoptera
Paneodonatoptera
Neodonatoptera
Euodonatoptera
OdonatocladaBechly 1999
Nodialata
Discoidalia
Stigmoptera
suborderArchizygoptera
familyLuiseiidae
genusAfrozygopteron
speciesinexpectatus

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.

Afrozygopteron inexpectatus 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: 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 Afrozygopteron inexpectatus (type locality: 226396)