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Eosciadocera helodis

Insecta - Diptera - Phoridae

Taxonomy
Eosciadocera helodis was named by Hong (1981). Its type specimen is GMB IV10139, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Xilutian coal mine, Fushun amber (late 1970s collection), which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in China. It is the type species of Eosciadocera.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1981Eosciadocera helodis Hong p. 140 figs. Pl 25, fig 61; text-fig 124,145.1-4
1999Eosciadocera helodis Mostovski p. 233
2002Eosciadocera helodis Hong p. 264 figs. 3-250, 3-251

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
RankNameAuthor
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
—Heterodactyla
—Eremoneura
suborderCyclorrhapha()
superfamilyPlatypezoideaFallen 1815
familyPhoridae
subfamilySciadocerinae(Schmitz 1929)
genusEosciadocera
specieshelodis

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.

†Eosciadocera helodis Hong 1981
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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: Ypresian or 56.00000 to 47.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8China (Liaoning) Eosciadocera helodis (type locality: 124530)