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Eoplatypleura messelensis

Insecta - Hemiptera - Cicadidae

Taxonomy
Eoplatypleura messelensis was named by Jiang et al. (2025). Its type specimen is SF-Mel1515, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Grube Messel Pit, grid square H12/13, around horizon M, which is in a MP 11 crater lake claystone in the Messel Formation of Germany. It is the type species of Eoplatypleura.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2025Eoplatypleura messelensis Jiang et al. p. 5 figs. 4-9

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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
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Clareocercaria
—Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
—Condylognatha
orderHemiptera
suborderAuchenorrhyncha()
infraorderCicadomorphaEvans 1946
superfamilyCicadoidea
familyCicadidae()
subfamilyCicadinae()
tribePlatypleuriniSchmidt 1918
genusEoplatypleura
speciesmesselensis

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.

†Eoplatypleura messelensis Jiang 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: MP 11 or 48.07000 to 41.03000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 1148.07 - 41.03Germany (Hessen) Eoplatypleura messelensis (120798 type locality: 240550)