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Belmontia mitchelli

Insecta - Mecoptera - Belmontiidae

Taxonomy
Belmontia mitchelli was named by Tillyard (1919). Its type specimen is AM F28469, a forewing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Belmont, Darling Street quarry (1919 collection), which is in a Changhsingian pond chert in the Croudace Bay Formation of Australia.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1919Belmontia mitchelli Tillyard p. 235 figs. Pl 12,13; text-figs 1-3
1922Parabelmontia permiana Tillyard p. 286 figs. Pl 33 fig 2; Fig 3
1953Belmontia mitchelli Riek p. 58 figs. Pl 5, figs 12,13; text-figs 5,6
1953Parabelmontia permiana Riek p. 59 figs. Pl 5, fig 14; text-fig 7
1978Belmontia mitchelli Willmann p. 20
1978Parabelmontia permiana Willmann p. 21
1989Belmontia mitchelli Willmann p. 39 fig. 27a
1989Parabelmontia permiana Willmann p. 39 fig. 27b
1997Belmontia mitchelli Novokshonov p. 72 fig. 23

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderMecopteraPackard 1886
familyBelmontiidae
genusBelmontia
speciesmitchelli

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.

Belmontia mitchelli Tillyard 1919
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Invalid names: Parabelmontia permiana Tillyard 1922 [synonym]
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: Changhsingian or 254.17000 to 252.17000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Changhsingian254.17 - 252.17Australia (New South Wales) Belmontia mitchelli (type locality: 111684) Belmontia mitchelli, Parabelmontia permiana (122433) Parabelmontia permiana (122475)