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Syndixa mollis

Insecta - Diptera - Dixidae

Taxonomy
Syndixa mollis was named by Lukashevich (1996). Its type specimen is PIN 1255/1548, a wing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Kubekovo village (PIN collection 1255), which is in a Bajocian/Bathonian lacustrine - large claystone in the Itat Formation of the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1996Syndixa mollis Lukashevich p. 49 fig. 2b
2016Syndixa mollis Greenwalt and Moulton p. 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyCulicoidea
familyDixidaeVan der Wulp 1877
genusSyndixa
speciesmollis

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.

†Syndixa mollis Lukashevich 1996
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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: base of the Bajocian to the top of the Bathonian or 170.30000 to 166.10000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bajocian - Bathonian170.3 - 166.1Russian Federation (Krasnoyarsk) Syndixa mollis (type locality: 118010)