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Sharasargus fortis

Insecta - Diptera - Archisargidae

Taxonomy
Sharasargus fortis was named by Zhang et al. (2008). Its type specimen is CNU-DB-NN2007015, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Daohugou (CNU 2007 collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Daohugou Formation of China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2008Sharasargus fortis Zhang et al. p. 271 fig. 3,4
2014Sharasargus fortis Zhang p. 868
2016Sharasargus fortis Grimaldi and Barden p. 27

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
superfamilyArchisargoidea
familyArchisargidae
subfamilyArchisarginae
genusSharasargus
speciesfortis

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.

†Sharasargus fortis Zhang et al. 2008
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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 - 157.3China (Nei Mongol) Sharasargus fortis (type locality: 112664)