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Cretaphormia fowleri

Insecta - Diptera

Taxonomy
Cretaphormia fowleri was named by McAlpine (1970). Its type specimen is CNC 12671/817, a nymph (pupa), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Drumheller concretion, which is in a Campanian marginal marine ironstone in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Canada. It is the type species of Cretaphormia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1970Cretaphormia fowleri McAlpine p. 345 figs. 1-6

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
—Heterodactyla
—Eremoneura
suborderCyclorrhapha()
—Schizophora
genusCretaphormia
speciesfowleri

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.

†Cretaphormia fowleri McAlpine 1970
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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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Canada (Alberta) Cretaphormia fowleri (type locality: 124953)