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Shurabia postiretis

Insecta - Reculida - Geinitziidae

Taxonomy
Meixiella postiretis was named by Huang et al. (1991). Its type specimen is NIGP 109269, a forewing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Meixi, Yiyang County, which is in a Sinemurian paralic siliciclastic in the Menkoushan Formation of China.

It was recombined as Shurabia postiretis by Storozhenko (1997) and Storozhenko (1998).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1991Meixiella postiretis Huang et al. p. 650 figs. Pl 1, fig 6; text-fig 4
1997Shurabia postiretis Storozhenko p. 14
1998Shurabia postiretis Storozhenko p. 130 fig. 286

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
orderReculida()
familyGeinitziidae
genusShurabia
speciespostiretis()

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.

Shurabia postiretis Huang et al. 1991
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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: Sinemurian or 199.30000 to 190.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sinemurian199.3 - 190.8China (Jiangxi) Meixiella postiretis (type locality: 156323)