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Depressonotum priscum

Insecta - Diptera - Curtonotidae

Taxonomy
Depressonotum priscum was named by Grimaldi and Kirk-Spriggs (2012). Its type specimen is AMNH DR11-7, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Dominican amber (AMNH coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic. It is the type species of Depressonotum.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2012Depressonotum priscum Grimaldi and Kirk-Spriggs p. 10 fig. 5,6

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
RankNameAuthor
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
—Heterodactyla
—Eremoneura
suborderCyclorrhapha()
—Schizophora
superfamilyEphydroidea
familyCurtonotidaeDuda 1934
genusDepressonotum
speciespriscum

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.

†Depressonotum priscum Grimaldi and Kirk-Spriggs 2012
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Diagnosis
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