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Sphecoptera minor

Insecta - Megasecoptera - Sphecopteridae

Taxonomy
Cyclocelis minor was named by Brongniart (1894). Its type specimen is MNHN.F.R51314, a hindwing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Commentry (MNHN Brongniart coll), which is in a Gzhelian lacustrine deltaic shale in the Commentry Shales Formation of France.

It was recombined as Cycloscelis minor by Brongniart (1893); it was recombined as Sphecoptera minor by Lameere (1917) and Carpenter (1951).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1893Cycloscelis minor Brongniart p. 413 figs. Pl 31 fig 9
1894Cyclocelis minor Brongniart p. 291 figs. Pl 15, fig 9
1906Cycloscelis minor Handlirsch p. 318 figs. Pl XXXIII fig 6
1917Sphecoptera minor Lameere p. 144
1951Sphecoptera minor Carpenter p. 347

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
superorderPalaeodictyopterida(Bechly 1996)
Megasecopteromorpha
orderMegasecoptera
familySphecopteridae
genusSphecoptera
speciesminor()

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.

Sphecoptera minor Brongniart 1894
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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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Gzhelian or 303.70000 to 298.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Gzhelian303.7 - 298.9France Cyclocelis minor (type locality: 103635)