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Sycopteron symmetricum

Insecta

Taxonomy
Sycopteron symmetrica was named by Bolton (1917). Its type specimen is Manchester Museum L 5.559, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Commentry (Mark Stirrup coll), which is in a Gzhelian lacustrine deltaic mudstone in the Commentry Shales Formation of France. It is the type species of Sycopteron.

It was corrected as Sycopteron symmetricum by Tillyard (1918).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1917Sycopteron symmetrica Bolton pp. 6-8 figs. Pl II figs 1-2
1918Sycopteron symmetricum Tillyard

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
genusSycopteron
speciessymmetricum()

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.

†Sycopteron symmetricum Bolton 1917
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available