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Meinertellidae (rock bristletail)

Insecta - Archaeognatha - Meinertellidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1910Meinertellidae Verhoeff
1998Meinertellidae Sturm and Poinar
2013Meinertellidae Mendes and Wunderlich p. 15
2015Meinertellidae Riquelme and Montejo-Cruz p. 96
2018Meinertellidae Zhang et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderArchaeognatha()
suborderMachilida(Grassi 1888)
superfamilyMachiloideaGrasse 1888
familyMeinertellidaeVerhoeff 1910
familyMeinertellidaeVerhoeff 1910

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.

Fm. Meinertellidae Verhoeff 1910 [rock bristletail]
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G. †Cretaceobrevibusantennis Chen and Su 2017
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G. †Cretaceomachilis Sturm and Poinar 1998
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Cretaceomachilis libanensis Sturm and Poinar 1998
Cretaceomachilis longa Zhang et al. 2018
G. †Glaesimeinertellus Sánchez-García et al. 2019
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Glaesimeinertellus intermedius Sánchez-García et al. 2019
G. Macropsontus Silvestri 1911
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Macropsontus azari Sánchez-García et al. 2019
Macropsontus bachae Sánchez-García et al. 2019
G. Neomachilellus Wygodzinsky 1953
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Subg. Neomachilellus (Praeneomachilellus) Sturm and Poinar 1997
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Neomachilellus (Praeneomachilellus) ezetaelenensis Riquelme and Montejo-Cruz 2015
G. †Nullmeinertellus Zhang et al. 2018
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Nullmeinertellus wenxuani Zhang et al. 2018
G. †Unimeinertellus Zhang et al. 2018
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Unimeinertellus abundus Zhang et al. 2018
Unimeinertellus bellus Zhang et al. 2018
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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Early/Lower Barremian to the top of the Early/Lower Miocene or 130.00000 to 15.97000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 125.45 Ma

Collections (17 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Barremian130.0 - 125.45Lebanon Cretaceomachilis libanensis (124925) Glaesimeinertellus intermedius, Macropsontus bachae (122471) Meinertellidae indet., Macropsontus azari (153333)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Myanmar Cretaceobrevibusantennis hookensis, Cretaceobrevibusantennis thornis (188400) Cretaceomachilis longa, Unimeinertellus abundus, Unimeinertellus bellus, Nullmeinertellus wenxuani (165561) Macropsontus sp. (144466)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Mexico (Chiapas) Neomachilellus ezetaelenensis (163578 172774 172775 172776 217215 217223) Neomachilellus sp. (138881)
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Neomachilellus dominicanus (122472 122474 122982 140497)