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Mecynoptera splendida

Insecta - Palaeodictyoptera

Taxonomy
Mecynoptera splendida was named by Handlirsch (1904). It is an impression. Its type locality is Produits colliery, Sainte-Félicité pit, no 23, Flénu, which is in a Westphalian C terrestrial siliciclastic in the Flénu Formation of Belgium.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1904Mecynoptera splendida Handlirsch p. 7 figs. Pl 2 fig 7, 8
1906Mecynoptera splendida Handlirsch p. 82 figs. Pl X fig 11
1919Mecynoptera splendida Handlirsch p. 524
1922Mecynoptera splendida Handlirsch p. 35
1930Mecynoptera splendida Pruvost p. 147

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
superorderPalaeodictyopterida(Bechly 1996)
orderPalaeodictyoptera
genusMecynoptera
speciessplendida

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.

†Mecynoptera splendida Handlirsch 1904
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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: Westphalian C or 314.60000 to 309.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Westphalian C314.6 - 309.8Belgium Mecynoptera splendida (type locality: 151844)