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Austaulius furcatus

Insecta - Necrotrichoptera - Necrotauliidae

Taxonomy
Orthophlebia furcata was named by Giebel (1856). Its type specimen is BMNH I 11522, an exoskeleton (head thorax & abdomen with 2 wings spread out), and it is an impression. Its type locality is Aust Cliff, Insect layer (Brodie collection), which is in a Rhaetian estuary/bay limestone in the Cotham Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Austaulius.

It was recombined as Orthophlebia (Phryganidium) furcata by Geinitz (1884); it was recombined as Necrotaulius furcatus by Handlirsch (1906), Tillyard (1933), Willmann (1978) and Zhang et al. (2017); it was recombined as Austaulius furcatus by Kelly et al. (2018).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1856Orthophlebia furcata Giebel p. 261
1856Orthophlebia liasina Giebel p. 261
1884Orthophlebia (Phryganidium) furcata Geinitz p. 573 figs. Pl 13, figs 5,6
1906Necrotaulius furcatus Handlirsch p. 484 figs. Pl XLII fig 37
1906Necrotaulius liasinus Handlirsch p. 485 figs. Pl XLII fig 38
1933Necrotaulius furcatus Tillyard p. 62
1933Necrotaulius westwoodi Tillyard p. 64 figs. Fig 26
1933Necrotaulius stigmaticus Tillyard p. 65 figs. Fig 27
1933Necrotaulius apicalis Tillyard p. 66 figs. Fig 28
1978Necrotaulius furcatus Willmann p. 115
1978Necrotaulius liasinus Willmann p. 116
2017Necrotaulius apicalis Zhang et al. p. 23
2017Necrotaulius furcatus Zhang et al. p. 23
2017Necrotaulius liasinus Zhang et al. p. 23
2017Necrotaulius stigmaticus Zhang et al. p. 23
2017Necrotaulius westwoodi Zhang et al. p. 23
2018Austaulius furcatus Kelly et al. p. 7 figs. 4, 5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAmphiesmenopteraKiriakoff 1948
—Metamphiesmenoptera
—Euamphiesmenoptera
—Panendymenoptera
orderNecrotrichoptera
familyNecrotauliidae
genusAustaulius
speciesfurcatus()

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.

†Austaulius furcatus Giebel 1856
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Invalid names: Necrotaulius apicalis Tillyard 1933 [synonym], Necrotaulius stigmaticus Tillyard 1933 [synonym], Necrotaulius westwoodi Tillyard 1933 [synonym], Orthophlebia liasina Giebel 1856 [synonym]
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: base of the Rhaetian to the top of the Planorbis or 208.50000 to 196.50000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Rhaetian208.5 - 201.3United Kingdom (England) Hemerobius sp. 1, Hemerobius sp. 2 (115246) Necrotaulius stigmaticus, Necrotaulius apicalis (115222)
Rhaetian208.5 - 201.3United Kingdom (Somerset) Austaulius furcatus (193353)
Planorbis201.3 - 196.5United Kingdom (England) Necrotaulius furcatus (115368)