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Heleageron arenatus

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Heleageron arenatus was named by Borkent (1995). Its type specimen is CAS 985, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Grassy Lake, Medicine Hat (CNC June 1974 collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in the Foremost Formation of Canada. It is the type species of Heleageron.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1995Heleageron arenatus Borkent p. 48 fig. 6
1997Heleageron arenatus Borkent and Wirth p. 99
2013Heleageron arenatus Borkent p. 123
2018Heleageron arenatus Szadziewski p. 224
2020Heleageron arenatus Borkent and Dominiak p. 216

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidae
genusHeleageron
speciesarenatus

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.

Heleageron arenatus Borkent 1995
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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: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Canada (Manitoba) Heleageron arenatus (122354 122356)
Middle Campanian83.5 - 70.6Canada (Alberta) Heleageron arenatus (type locality: 122384 122388 122389)