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Petracloeon carolinensis

Insecta - Ephemeroptera - Baetidae

Taxonomy
Petracloeon carolinensis was named by Sroka and Gattolliat (2025). Its type specimen is AMNH NC-VK261, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Neuse River amber, which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in North Carolina. It is the type species of Petracloeon.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2025Petracloeon carolinensis Sroka and Gattolliat p. 126 figs. 1-20

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
infraclassHydropalaeopteraRohdendorf 1969
—Euhydropalaeoptera
—PanephemeropteraCrampton 1928
—Ephemerida(Latreille 1810)
—Heptabranchia
orderEphemeropteraHyatt and Arms 1890
—EuplectopteraTillyard 1932
—AnteritornaKluge 1993
—TridentisetaKluge et al. 1995
—TetramerotarsataKluge 1997
familyBaetidae()
genusPetracloeon
speciescarolinensis

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.

†Petracloeon carolinensis Sroka and Gattolliat 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: Early/Lower Campanian or 83.60000 to 72.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Campanian83.6 - 72.2USA (North Carolina) Petracloeon carolinensis (type locality: 152037)