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Bibio oligocenus

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Bibio oligocenus was named by Cockerell (1917). Its type specimen is BMNH I. 8650, a wing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1917Bibio oligocenus Cockerell p. 375 figs. Pl 31, fig 5
2019Bibio oligocenus Nel et al. p. 533 figs. Pl 6e; tex-figs 82-84

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
RankNameAuthor
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilyBibionoidea
familyBibionidae
subfamilyBibioninae
tribeBibionini
subtribeBibionina
genusBibio
speciesoligocenus

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.

†Bibio oligocenus Cockerell 1917
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available