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Afrophaga extincta

Insecta - Blattodea - Corydiidae

Taxonomy
Afrophaga extincta was named by Vršanský (2021). Its type specimen is PIN 3394/19, a forewing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Brezina, Saida department (PIN collection 3394), which is in a Hauterivian marine siliciclastic in Algeria. It is the type species of Afrophaga.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2021Afrophaga extincta Vršanský p. 27 figs. 1C, 2E

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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
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
—Solumblattodea
superfamilyCorydioidea
familyCorydiidae()
genusAfrophaga
speciesextincta

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.

†Afrophaga extincta Vršanský 2021
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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: Hauterivian or 132.90000 to 129.40000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Hauterivian132.9 - 129.4Algeria Afrophaga extincta (type locality: 123148)