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Sackenia arcuata

Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae

Taxonomy
Sackenia arcuata was named by Scudder (1877). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Chagrin Valley, which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Colorado.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1877Sackenia arcuata Scudder p. 754
1885Sackenia arcuata Scudder p. 811 fig. 1088
1890Sackenia arcuata Scudder p. 595 figs. Pl 5 figs 3, 4, 12, 13
1909Sackenia arcuata Johannsen p. 85
2021Sackenia arcuata Oliveira and Amorim p. 106

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familyMycetophilidae
subfamilyMycetophilinae
genusSackenia
speciesarcuata

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.

†Sackenia arcuata Scudder 1877
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available