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Liomopterina clara

Insecta - Eoblattida - Megakhosaridae

Taxonomy
Liomopterina clara was named by Riek (1973). Its type specimen is NM 854ab, a wing (base of wing), and it is an impression. Its type locality is Mooi River Locality, which is in a Changhsingian delta plain shale in South Africa. It is the type species of Liomopterina.

It was synonymized subjectively with Liomoptoides similis by van Dijk and Geertsema (1999).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1973Liomopterina clara Riek p. 518 figs. 5; Pl 1 fig 4
1976Liomopterina clara Riek p. 761 figs. Pl 1 fig 6
1998Liomopterina clara Storozhenko p. 169 fig. 418
2014Liomopterina clara Storozhenko and Aristov p. 12

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderEoblattidaHandlirsch 1906
familyMegakhosaridae
genusLiomopterina
speciesclara

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.

Liomopterina clara Riek 1973
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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: Changhsingian or 254.17000 to 252.17000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Changhsingian254.17 - 252.17South Africa (Natal) Liomopterina clara (type locality: 124428)