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Plecia similkameena

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Penthetria similkameena was named by Scudder (1879). Its type specimen is GSC 6172, an exoskeleton (male with wing attached), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is 3 miles up North Fork of Similkameen River, which is in a Ypresian lacustrine shale/siltstone in the Allenby Formation of Canada.

It was recombined as Plecia similkameena by Scudder (1885), Scudder (1890) and Rice (1959).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1879Penthetria similkameena Scudder p. 176
1885Plecia similkameena Scudder p. 811 fig. 1086
1890Plecia similkameena Scudder p. 583 figs. Pl 3 figs 20-22
1959Plecia similkameena Rice pp. 12-13 figs. Pl II figs 5, 9; Fig 5 Nos. 1-4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilyBibionoidea
familyBibionidae
subfamilyPleciinaeDuda 1930
genusPleciaWiedemann 1823
speciessimilkameena()

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.

†Plecia similkameena Scudder 1879
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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: Ypresian or 56.00000 to 47.80000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8Canada (British Columbia) Penthetria similkameena (type locality: 112781) Plecia similkameena (119895 120943)