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Mesostratiomyia laiyangensis

Insecta - Diptera

Taxonomy
Mesostratiomyia laiyangensis was named by Hong and Wang (1990). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is 84GT1, west Tuanwang Village, Laiyang City, which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large shale in the Laiyang Formation of China. It is the type species of Mesostratiomyia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1990Mesostratiomyia laiyangensis Hong and Wang p. 155 figs. Pl 19, fig 3; text-figs 6.5.158-159
1998Mesostratiomyia laiyangensis Nagatomi and Yang p. 146 figs. 106, 107
2013Mesostratiomyia laiyangensis Zhang p. 226

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
genusMesostratiomyia
specieslaiyangensis

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.

†Mesostratiomyia laiyangensis Hong and Wang 1990
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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: Aptian or 125.00000 to 113.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Aptian125.0 - 113.0China (Shandong) Mesostratiomyia laiyangensis (type locality: 154887)