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Arctotypus diluculum

Insecta - Meganisoptera - Meganeuridae

Taxonomy
Tupus diluculum was named by Whalley (1980). Its type specimen is BMNH In. 64553, a wing (incomplete wing), and it is an impression. Its type locality is Bolsover Colliery, which is in a Westphalian A delta plain siliciclastic in the Deep Hard Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Arctotypus diluculum by Nel et al. (2009).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1980Tupus diluculum Whalley p. 285
1989Tupus diluculum Brauckmann and Zessin p. 182
2009Arctotypus diluculum Nel et al. p. 98

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
infraclassHydropalaeopteraRohdendorf 1969
RankNameAuthor
Euhydropalaeoptera
OdonatopteraMartynov 1932
Palaeodonatoptera
Plesiodonatoptera
Apodonatoptera
Paneodonatoptera
Neodonatoptera
orderMeganisoptera
familyMeganeuridae
subfamilyTupinae()
genusArctotypus
speciesdiluculum()

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.

Arctotypus diluculum Whalley 1980
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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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Westphalian A or 318.70000 to 316.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Westphalian A318.7 - 316.9United Kingdom (England) Tupus diluculum (type locality: 105042)