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Spiniphora cockerelli

Insecta - Diptera - Phoridae

Taxonomy
Phora cockerelli was named by Brues (1908). Its type specimen is AMNH, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Florissant, Station 17, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

It was recombined as Spiniphora cockerelli by Brown (1999).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1908Phora cockerelli Brues p. 274 figs. Fig 1
1949Phora cockerelli Melander p. 47
1999Spiniphora cockerelli Brown

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
RankNameAuthor
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
Heterodactyla
Eremoneura
suborderCyclorrhapha()
superfamilyPlatypezoideaFallen 1815
familyPhoridae
Euphorida
Neophorida
subfamilyPhorinae
genusSpiniphoraMalloch 1909
speciescockerelli()

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.

Spiniphora cockerelli Brues 1908
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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: Chadronian or 37.20000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Phora cockerelli (type locality: 106382 124624)