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Gerarus vetus

Insecta - Geraridae

Taxonomy
Gerarus vetus was named by Scudder (1885). Its type specimen is USNM 38136, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Mazon Creek, USNM Lacoe Collection, which is in a Westphalian D interdistributary bay mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois. It is the type species of Gerarus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1885Gerarus vetus Scudder p. 343 figs. Pl 31, fig 6
1906Gerarus vetus Handlirsch p. 147 figs. Pl XV fig 2
1922Gerarus vetus Handlirsch p. 74
1983Gerarus vetus Burnham p. 14 fig. 4,5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
superorderArchaeorthoptera
—PanorthopteraCrampton 1928
familyGeraridae
genusGerarus
speciesvetus

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.

†Gerarus vetus Scudder 1885
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available