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Sinosepididontus chifengensis

Insecta - Reculida - Geinitziidae

Taxonomy
Sinosepididontus chifengensis was named by Huang and Nel (2008). Its type specimen is NIGP 148114, 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.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2008Sinosepididontus chifengensis Huang and Nel p. 396 figs. 1a-i, 2
2012Sinosepididontus chifengensis Cui et al. p. 257 fig. 6

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
orderReculida()
familyGeinitziidae
genusSinosepididontus
specieschifengensis

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.

Sinosepididontus chifengensis Huang and Nel 2008
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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: base of the Callovian to the top of the Oxfordian or 166.10000 to 157.30000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Callovian - Oxfordian166.1 - 157.3China (Nei Mongol) Sinosepididontus chifengensis (113365 type locality: 113371)