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Mesocixius triassicus

Insecta - Hemiptera - Dysmorphoptilidae

Taxonomy
Mesocixius triassicus was named by Tillyard (1919). Its type specimen is GSQI215, a tegmen, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Denmark Hill Insect Bed (Dunstan 1915-1916 collection), which is in a Norian pond siltstone in the Blackstone Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Mesocixius.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1919Mesocixius triassicus Tillyard p. 877 figs. Fig 11
1923Mesocixius triassicus Tillyard
1956Mesocixius triassicus Evans p. 241
2015Mesocixius triassicus Lambkin p. 360 fig. 1,2
2019Mesocixius triassicus Szwedo and Huang p. 157

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
Clareocercaria
Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
Condylognatha
orderHemiptera
suborderAuchenorrhyncha()
infraorderCicadomorphaEvans 1946
infraorderProsbolomorphaPopov 1980
superfamilyDysmorphoptiloidea
familyDysmorphoptilidae
subfamilyDysmorphoptilinaeHandlirsch 1906
genusMesocixius
speciestriassicus

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.

Mesocixius triassicus Tillyard 1919
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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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Norian or 228.00000 to 208.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Norian228.0 - 208.5Australia (Queensland) Mesocixius triassicus (type locality: 111558)