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Palaeobrachyceron steyskali

Insecta - Diptera - Rhagionidae

Taxonomy
Palaeobrachyceron steyskali was named by Kovalev (1981). Its type specimen is PIN 3000/1371, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Novospasskoye village (PIN collection 3000), which is in an Oxfordian lacustrine - small siliciclastic in the Ichetuy Formation of the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1981Palaeobrachyceron steyskali Kovalev p. 93
1998Palaeobrachyceron steyskali Nagatomi and Yang p. 129 figs. 67, 68

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
—Homeodactyla
infraorderTabanomorphaHennig 1948
familyRhagionidae()
genusPalaeobrachyceron
speciessteyskali

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.

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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: Oxfordian or 163.50000 to 157.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Oxfordian163.5 - 157.3Russian Federation (Buryat) Palaeobrachyceron steyskali (type locality: 105017)