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Palaeomastax carbonis

Insecta

Taxonomy
Palaeomastax carbonis was named by Handlirsch (1904). Its type specimen is RBINS a7700, a wing (fragment), and it is an impression. Its type locality is Belle-et-Bonne coliery, Avaleresse pit, Frameries, which is in a Westphalian C terrestrial siliciclastic in the Flénu Formation of Belgium.

It was recombined as Omalia carbonis by Pruvost (1930) and Brauckmann et al. (2001).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1904Palaeomastax carbonis Handlirsch p. 16 figs. Pl 7 fig 27-28
1906Palaeomastax carbonis Handlirsch p. 151 figs. Pl XV fig 13
1922Palaeomastax carbonis Handlirsch p. 89
1930Omalia carbonis Pruvost p. 159 figs. Pl 6, figs 3,3a,3b
2001Omalia carbonis Brauckmann et al. p. 59
2005Palaeomastax carbonis Béthoux and Nel p. 289 fig. 4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
superorderArchaeorthoptera
genusPalaeomastax
speciescarbonis

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.

Palaeomastax carbonis 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 Palaeomastax carbonis (type locality: 123820)