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Palaepangonius sellwoodi

Insecta - Diptera

Taxonomy
Athericites sellwoodi was named by Mostovski et al. (2003). Its type specimen is MNEMG 2001.47, a wing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Durlston Bay, Bed DB65-69, Dorset, which is in a Berriasian lagoonal siliciclastic in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Palaepangonius sellwoodi by Grimaldi (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2003Athericites sellwoodi Mostovski et al. p. 168 fig. 5d
2016Palaepangonius sellwoodi Grimaldi p. 33

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
Homeodactyla
infraorderTabanomorphaHennig 1948
genusPalaepangonius
speciessellwoodi()

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.

Palaepangonius sellwoodi Mostovski et al. 2003
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available