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Delopsocus elongatus

Insecta - Miomoptera - Palaeomanteidae

Taxonomy
Delopterum elongatum was named by Sellards (1909). Its type specimen is Sellards 61, a forewing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Elmo, Sellards collection, which is in an Artinskian pond limestone in the Wellington Formation of Kansas. It is the type species of Delopsocus.

It was recombined as Delopsocus elongatus by Tillyard (1928), Rasnitsyn (2004) and Prokop et al. (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1909Delopterum elongatum Sellards p. 168 fig. 20
1922Delopterum elongatum Handlirsch p. 93
1928Delopsocus elongatus Tillyard
1933Delopterum elongatum Carpenter
2004Delopsocus elongatus Rasnitsyn p. 230
2017Delopsocus elongatus Prokop et al. p. 8

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Clareocercaria
orderMiomoptera
familyPalaeomanteidae()
genusDelopsocus
specieselongatus()

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.

Delopsocus elongatus Sellards 1909
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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: Artinskian or 290.10000 to 279.30000 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Artinskian290.1 - 279.3USA (Kansas) Delopsocus elongatus (111219) Delopterum elongatum (type locality: 21979 111319 111320 114151)
Artinskian290.1 - 279.3USA (Oklahoma) Delopterum elongatum (104826)