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Protomyrmeleon cretacicus

Insecta - Protomyrmeleontidae

Taxonomy
Protomyrmeleon cretacicus was named by Nel and Jarzembowski (1998). Its type specimen is BMB 018741/2, a wing (incomplete wing), and it is an impression. Its type locality is Clockhouse Brickworks (BMB collection), which is in a Hauterivian lagoonal sandstone in the Weald Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1998Protomyrmeleon cretacicus Nel and Jarzembowski p. 394 fig. 1

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
infraclassHydropalaeopteraRohdendorf 1969
—Euhydropalaeoptera
—OdonatopteraMartynov 1932
—Palaeodonatoptera
—Plesiodonatoptera
RankNameAuthor
—Apodonatoptera
—Paneodonatoptera
—Neodonatoptera
—Euodonatoptera
—OdonatocladaBechly 1999
—Nodialata
—Discoidalia
—Stigmoptera
suborderArchizygoptera
superfamilyProtomyrmeleontoideaHandlirsch 1906
—Terskejoptera
—Moltenoptera
familyProtomyrmeleontidae()
subfamilyProtomyrmeleontinae
genusProtomyrmeleon
speciescretacicus

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.

†Protomyrmeleon cretacicus Nel and Jarzembowski 1998
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available