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Blattomerope polyneura

Insecta - Mecoptera - Thaumatomeropidae

Taxonomy
Blattomerope polyneura was named by Rasnitsyn (1974). Its type specimen is PIN 2971/113, a forewing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Madygen, PIN collection 2971, Madygen (SW area), which is in a Ladinian lacustrine - small siliciclastic in the Madygen Formation of Kyrgyzstan. It is the type species of Blattomerope.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1974Blattomerope polyneura Rasnitsyn p. 504 figs. Pl 7, fig 3; text-fig 6
1978Blattomerope polyneura Willmann p. 14

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderMecopteraPackard 1886
familyThaumatomeropidae()
genusBlattomerope
speciespolyneura

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.

†Blattomerope polyneura Rasnitsyn 1974
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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: Ladinian or 242.00000 to 237.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Kyrgyzstan (Osh) Blattomerope polyneura (type locality: 110765)