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Lauxaniidae

Insecta - Diptera - Lauxaniidae

Synonyms
  • Lonchaea senescens was named by Scudder (1877). Its type specimen is GSC 17, an exoskeleton (fragmentary body and expanded wings), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Quesnel, which is in a Priabonian lacustrine shale in the Australian Creek Formation of Canada.

    It was considered a nomen dubium by Evenhuis (1994).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1835Lauxaniidae Macquart p. 506
1877Lonchaea senescens Scudder pp. 277-278
1890Lonchaea senescens Scudder p. 539 figs. Pl 3 fig 18
1992Lauxaniidae Carpenter
2011Lauxaniidae Wiegmann et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
RankNameAuthor
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
—Heterodactyla
—Eremoneura
suborderCyclorrhapha()
—Schizophora
superfamilyLauxanioidea
familyLauxaniidae
familyLauxaniidae

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. Lauxaniidae Macquart 1835
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G. †Chamaelauxania Hennig 1965
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†Chamaelauxania succini Hennig 1965
G. †Eolausanites Hong 2002
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G. †Hemilauxania Hennig 1965
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†Hemilauxania incurviseta Hennig 1965
Subfm. Homoneurinae Stuckenberg 1971
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G. Trypetisoma Malloch 1924
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Invalid names: Trypaneoides Tonnoir and Malloch 1926 [synonym]
Subfm. Lauxaniinae Macquart 1835
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G. Sapromyza Fallen 1810
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†Sapromyza veterana Melander 1949
Invalid names: Lonchaea senescens Scudder 1877 [nomen dubium]
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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Chadronian or 56.00000 to 33.90000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 47.8 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8China (Liaoning) Tryanoides ellipticus (124530)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Chamaelauxania succini (123926) Chamaelauxania succini, Hemilauxania incurviseta (123927)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Canada (British Columbia) Lonchaea senescens (121480)
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Sapromyza veterana (124624)