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Tipula carpenteri

Insecta - Diptera - Tipulidae

Taxonomy
Tipula carpenteri was named by Alexander (1938). Its type specimen is MCZ 4536, an exoskeleton (nearly complete fly), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Creede (MCZ collection), which is in an Oligocene crater lake shale in the Creede Formation of Colorado.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1938Tipula carpenteri Alexander p. 112 figs. Pl 13 figs 1, 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
suborderNematoceraLatreille 1825
infraorderTipulomorpha
superfamilyTipuloidea
familyTipulidae()
subfamilyTipulinae
genusTipula
speciescarpenteri

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Tipula carpenteri Alexander 1938
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available