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Tillyardiptera prima

Insecta - Diptera - Tillyardipteridae

Taxonomy
Tillyardiptera prima was named by Lukashevich and Shcherbakov (1999). Its type specimen is BMNH In. 44958, a wing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Mount Crosby Insect Bed (Tillyard BMNH collection), which is in a Norian lacustrine - small shale in the Mount Crosby Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Tillyardiptera.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1999Tillyardiptera prima Lukashevich and Shcherbakov p. 83 figs. 1-3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
suborderNematoceraLatreille 1825
familyTillyardipteridae
genusTillyardiptera
speciesprima

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.

Tillyardiptera prima Lukashevich and Shcherbakov 1999
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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: 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) Tillyardiptera prima (type locality: 113431)