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Mesojassus australis

Insecta - Hemiptera - Archijassidae

Taxonomy
Triassocotis australis was named by Evans (1956). Its type specimen is UQ C1554, a tegmen, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Mount Crosby Insect Bed (UQ collection), which is in a Norian pond shale in Australia.

It was recombined as Mesojassus australis by Lambkin (2020).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1956Triassocotis australis Evans p. 194 fig. 5L
1956Hylicella reducta Evans p. 196 fig. 7B
1961Triassocotis amplicata Evans p. 16 fig. 1G
1961Triassocotis australis Evans p. 16 fig. 1E
1962Hylicellites reducta Becker-Migdisova p. 95
2020Mesojassus australis Lambkin p. 417 figs. 5-11

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Clareocercaria
Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
Condylognatha
orderHemiptera
suborderAuchenorrhyncha()
infraorderCicadomorphaEvans 1946
superfamilyMembracoideaRafinesque 1815
familyArchijassidae
subfamilyArchijassinae
genusMesojassus
speciesaustralis()

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.

Mesojassus australis Evans 1956
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Invalid names: Hylicella reducta Evans 1956 [synonym], Triassocotis amplicata Evans 1961 [synonym]
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: Norian or 228.00000 to 208.50000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Norian228.0 - 208.5Australia (Queensland) Hylicella reducta, Triassocotis australis, Triassocotis amplicata (type locality: 106484) Mesojassus australis (162402 162405 224015)