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Kovalevisargus clarigenus

Insecta - Diptera - Kovalevisargidae

Taxonomy
Kovalevisargus clarigenus was named by Mostovski (1997). Its type specimen is PIN 2904/1586, a wing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2904), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan. It is the type species of Kovalevisargus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1997Kovalevisargus clarigenus Mostovski p. 77 figs. 3 a
1998Kovalevisargus clarigenus Nagatomi and Yang p. 178 fig. 208
2014Kovalevisargus clarigenus Zhang p. 872
2016Kovalevisargus clarigenus Grimaldi and Barden p. 27

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
superfamilyArchisargoidea
familyKovalevisargidae
genusKovalevisargus
speciesclarigenus

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.

Kovalevisargus clarigenus Mostovski 1997
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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 Callovian to the top of the Oxfordian or 166.10000 to 157.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Callovian - Oxfordian166.1 - 157.3Kazakhstan (Chimkent) Kovalevisargus clarigenus (type locality: 106279)