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Mongolobittacus daohugouensis

Insecta - Mecoptera - Bittacidae

Taxonomy
Mongolobittacus daohugouensis was named by Petrulevičius et al. (2007). Its type specimen is NIGPAS 133709, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Daohugou (NIGP collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Daohugou Formation of China. It is the type species of Mongolobittacus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2007Mongolobittacus daohugouensis Petrulevičius et al. p. 149 figs. 1-4

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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
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderMecopteraPackard 1886
suborderPistillifera
infraorderRaptipedia
familyBittacidaeHandlirsch 1906
genusMongolobittacus
speciesdaohugouensis

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.

†Mongolobittacus daohugouensis Petrulevičius et al. 2007
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Diagnosis
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