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Protobrachyceridae

Insecta - Diptera - Protobrachyceridae

Taxonomy
Protobrachyceridae was named by Rohdendorf (1962). Its type is Protobrachyceron.

It was corrected as Protobrachycerontidae by Carpenter (1992).

It was assigned to Brachycera by Carpenter (1992) and Zhang et al. (2008).

Subtaxa
Protobrachyceron (type genus)

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1962Protobrachyceridae Rohdendorf p. 334
1992Protobrachycerontidae Carpenter
2008Protobrachyceridae Zhang et al. p. 62

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
familyProtobrachyceridae
familyProtobrachyceridae

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.

Fm. †Protobrachyceridae Rohdendorf 1962
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G. †Protobrachyceron Handlirsch 1920
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Protobrachyceron liasinum Handlirsch 1920
Protobrachyceron sinensis Zhang et al. 2008
Protobrachyceron zessini Krzemiński and Ansorge 2000
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: base of the Early/Lower Toarcian to the top of the Oxfordian or 183.00000 to 157.30000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Toarcian183.0 - 182.0Germany Protobrachyceron liasinum (123987) Protobrachyceron zessini (114991)
Callovian - Oxfordian166.1 - 157.3China (Nei Mongol) Protobrachyceron sinensis (113362)