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Meropomorpha

Insecta - Mecoptera

Taxonomy
Meropomorpha is an unranked clade. It is extant.

It was assigned to Opisthogonopora by Willmann (1987).

Subtaxa
Meropeidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1987Meropomorpha Willmann

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

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.

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Fm. Meropeidae Handlirsch 1906 [earwigfly]
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Subfm. †Boreomeropeinae Soszyńska-Maj and Krzemiński 2017
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G. †Boreomerope Novokshonov 1995
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†Boreomerope antiqua Novokshonov 1995
Subfm. †Burmomeropeinae Soszyńska-Maj and Krzemiński 2017
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G. †Burmomerope Grimaldi and Engel 2013
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†Burmomerope bashkuevi Sun et al. 2020
†Burmomerope clara Zhao and Wang 2016
†Burmomerope eureka Grimaldi and Engel 2013
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 Bajocian to the top of the Early/Lower Cenomanian or 170.30000 to 93.50000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 166.1 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bajocian - Bathonian170.3 - 166.1Russian Federation (Krasnoyarsk) Boreomerope antiqua (118010)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Myanmar Burmomerope clara (172900 187929) Burmomerope clara, Burmomerope bashkuevi (161726)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Myanmar (Kachin) Burmomerope eureka (123113)