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Fouquea superba

Insecta - Palaeodictyoptera - Fouqueidae

Taxonomy
Archaecompsoneura superba was named by Meunier (1909). It is an impression. Its type locality is Commentry (MNHN later coll), which is in a Gzhelian lacustrine deltaic shale in the Commentry Shales Formation of France.

It was synonymized subjectively with Fouquea lacroixi by Lameere (1917); it was recombined as Fouquea superba by Kukalová (1969).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1909Archaecompsoneura superba Meunier p. 41 fig. 1
1919Archaecompsoneura superba Handlirsch p. 530 fig. 22
1922Archaecompsoneura superba Handlirsch p. 44
1969Fouquea superba Kukalová p. 205 fig. 25

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
superorderPalaeodictyopterida(Bechly 1996)
orderPalaeodictyoptera
superfamilySpilapteroidea
familyFouqueidae
genusFouquea
speciessuperba()

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.

Fouquea superba Meunier 1909
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Diagnosis
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