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Metropator pusillus

Insecta - Metropatoridae

Taxonomy
Metropator pusillus was named by Handlirsch (1906). Its type specimen is USNM 38731, a wing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Altamont Colliery, which is in a Yeadonian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Pottsville Formation of Pennsylvania. It is the type species of Metropator.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1906Metropator pusillus Handlirsch p. 112 figs. Pl XII fig 12
1919Metropator pusillus Handlirsch p. 532
1922Metropator pusillus Handlirsch p. 49
1965Metropator pusillus Carpenter p. 177 fig. 1
1984Metropator pusillus Durden p. 176 figs. Pl 1, fig 2

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

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.

†Metropator pusillus Handlirsch 1906
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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: Yeadonian or 320.00000 to 318.70000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Yeadonian320.0 - 318.7USA (Pennsylvania) Metropator pusillus (type locality: 114455)