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Ambrotophasma vetulum

Insecta - Phasmatodea - Pterophasmatidae

Taxonomy
Ambrotophasma vetulum was named by Yang et al. (2022). Its type specimen is CNU-PHA-NN-2018007, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Daohugou (CNU 2018 collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Daohugou Formation of China. It is the type species of Ambrotophasma.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2022Ambrotophasma vetulum Yang et al. p. 1641 figs. 1b, S2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
Eukinolabia
Holophasmatodea
orderPhasmatodeaJacobson and Bianchi 1902
familyPterophasmatidae
genusAmbrotophasma
speciesvetulum

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.

Ambrotophasma vetulum Yang 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: base of the Callovian to the top of the Oxfordian or 166.10000 to 157.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Callovian - Oxfordian166.1 - 157.3China (Nei Mongol) Ambrotophasma vetulum (type locality: 196979)