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Xenoptera riojaensis

Insecta - Megasecoptera - Xenopteraidae

Taxonomy
Xenoptera riojaensis was named by Pinto (1986). Its type specimen is PZ inv. 19890, an exoskeleton (poorly preserved body and 3 wings), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Malanzán, Cuesta de la Herradura, which is in a Bashkirian terrestrial horizon in the Malanzán Formation of Argentina. It is the type species of Xenoptera.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1986Xenoptera riojaensis Pinto pp. 25-26 figs. Pl I; Pl II

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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)
—Megasecopteromorpha
orderMegasecoptera
familyXenopteraidae()
genusXenoptera
speciesriojaensis

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.

†Xenoptera riojaensis Pinto 1986
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available