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Raphidium brephos

Insecta - Phasmatodea

Taxonomy
Raphidium brephos was named by Westwood (1854). It is an impression. Its type locality is Swanage/Purbeck (DORCM/BMNH) [C. Willcox Collection], which is in a Berriasian fluvial-lacustrine limestone in the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Ela brephos by Giebel (1856).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1854Raphidium brephos Westwood p. 395 figs. Pl 17 fig 16
1856Ela brephos Giebel p. 257
1906Raphidium brephos Handlirsch p. 526 figs. Pl XLIV fig 21

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Eukinolabia
—Holophasmatodea
orderPhasmatodeaJacobson and Bianchi 1902
genusRaphidium
speciesbrephos

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.

†Raphidium brephos Westwood 1854
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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: Berriasian or 145.00000 to 139.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Berriasian145.0 - 139.8United Kingdom (England) Raphidium brephos (type locality: 127481)