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Probittacomorpha christenseni

Insecta - Diptera - Ptychopteridae

Taxonomy
Probittacomorpha christenseni was named by Freiwald and Willmann (1992). Its type specimen is Moler Museum 6-2295, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Ejerslev Industrial Pit (Museum Mors collection), which is in a Ypresian offshore diatomite in the Fur Formation of Denmark.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1992Probittacomorpha christenseni Freiwald and Willmann p. 182 figs. Pl 1, figs 1-3; text-figs 1,2
1994Probittacomorpha christenseni Evenhuis
1999Probittacomorpha christenseni Ansorge and Schröder p. 307 figs. 1-8

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
suborderNematoceraLatreille 1825
infraorderPtychopteromorpha
familyPtychopteridaeOsten-Sacken 1862
subfamilyBittacomorphinae
genusProbittacomorpha
specieschristenseni

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.

†Probittacomorpha christenseni Freiwald and Willmann 1992
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available