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Mesorthopteron locustoides
Taxonomy
Mesorthopteron locustoides was named by Tillyard (1916). Its type specimen is GSQI5, a tegmen (fragment), and it is an impression. Its type locality is Denmark Hill Insect Bed (Dunstan 1909 collection), which is in a Norian pond siltstone in the Blackstone Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Mesorthopteron.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1916 | Mesorthopteron locustoides Tillyard p. 14 figs. Pl 1 fig 4 Pl 2 fig 3-6 |
| 1922 | Mesorthopteron locustoides Tillyard |
| 1923 | Mesorthopteron locustoides Tillyard |
| 1956 | Mesorthopteron locustoides Riek p. 105 figs. Pl 2, fig 1 |
| 1998 | Mesorthopteron locustoides Storozhenko p. 132 fig. 290 |
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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.
†Mesorthopteron locustoides Tillyard 1916
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||