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Samarkandykia noharai

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Xyelidae

Taxonomy
Samarkandykia noharai was named by Oyama et al. (2025). Its type specimen is MMHF3-00097, a forewing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Ominé locality, Mine City (MMHF collection), which is in a Carnian lacustrine siliciclastic in the Momonoki Formation of Japan.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2025Samarkandykia noharai Oyama et al. p. 13 figs. 5.4-5.6

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
superfamilyXyeloidea
familyXyelidae
subfamilyMadygellinae
genusSamarkandykia
speciesnoharai

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.

†Samarkandykia noharai Oyama et al. 2025
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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 - 227.3Japan Samarkandykia noharai (type locality: 230243)