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Forcynthia cynthiae

Insecta - Palaeodictyoptera - Hanidae

Taxonomy
Forcynthia cynthiae was named by Sinitshenkova (2004). Its type specimen is NMMNH P-26908, a wing (incomplete right wing), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is NMMNH L-3433; Carrizo Arroyo, which is in an Asselian pond mudstone in the Bursum Formation of New Mexico. It is the type species of Forcynthia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2004Forcynthia cynthiae Sinitshenkova p. 224 fig. 14

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

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.

†Forcynthia cynthiae Sinitshenkova 2004
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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: Asselian or 298.90000 to 295.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Asselian298.9 - 295.5USA (New Mexico) Forcynthia cynthiae (type locality: 124386)