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Mesochorista tillyardi

Insecta - Mecoptera - Permochoristidae

Taxonomy
Mesochorista tillyardi was named by Lian and Huang (2025). Its type specimen is NIGP205288, an exoskeleton (forewing), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Houdong, Yinping Mountain, SW Chaohu City, which is in a Capitanian marine shale in the Yinping Formation of China.

Entered
by M. Clapham on 2025-11-08; modified by M. Clapham on 2025-11-08

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2025Mesochorista tillyardi Lian and Huang p. 4 figs. 1, 2, 3A-H
2026Mesochorista tillyardi Lian p. 119

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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
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderMecopteraPackard 1886
familyPermochoristidae
subfamilyPermochoristinaeTillyard 1917
tribeMesochoristini(Tillyard 1926)
genusMesochorista
speciestillyardi

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.

†Mesochorista tillyardi Lian and Huang 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: Capitanian or 264.28000 to 259.51000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Capitanian264.28 - 259.51China (Anhui) Mesochorista tillyardi (type locality: 103239)