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Elisama brevis

Insecta - Blattodea - Blattulidae

Taxonomy
Araripeblatta brevis was named by Mendes (2000). Its type specimen is UnG/1T-20, an exoskeleton (female complete body), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Crato, Pedra Branca quarry (UnG collection), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large carbonate in the Crato Formation of Brazil. It is the type species of Araripeblatta.

It was recombined as Elisama brevis by Lee (2016).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
2000Araripeblatta brevis Mendes p. 29 figs. 4; pl D
2000Blattulopsis beckeri Mendes p. 33 figs. 8; pl H
2002Elisama americana Vršanský p. 9 figs. 11, 21-26
2004Elisama americana Vršanský p. 51
2007Elisama americana Bechly p. 247 fig. 11.23f
2010Araripeblatta brevis Martins-Neto et al. p. 10 figs. 3A-B
2010Araripeblatta beckeri Martins-Neto et al. p. 11 fig. 3C
2010Araripeblatta cesae Martins-Neto et al. p. 11 figs. 4, 5
2016Elisama brevis Lee p. 437 fig. 4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
Solumblattodea
superfamilyCorydioidea
familyBlattulidae
genusElisama
speciesbrevis()

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.

Elisama brevis Mendes 2000
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Invalid names: Araripeblatta beckeri Mendes 2000 [synonym], Araripeblatta cesae Martins-Neto et al. 2010 [synonym], Elisama americana Vršanský 2002 [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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Late/Upper Aptian or 122.46000 to 113.00000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Aptian122.46 - 113.0Brazil (Ceará) Araripeblatta brevis, Blattulopsis beckeri (type locality: 123014) Araripeblatta cesae (161261) Elisama americana (122352) Elisama americana, Elisama brevis (122557)