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Tupus orientalis

Insecta - Meganisoptera - Meganeuridae

Taxonomy
Paragilsonia orientalis was named by Zhang et al. (2012). Its type specimen is GMC07QNS001, a forewing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Shangheyan, Zhongwei County (GMCB coll), which is in a Bashkirian paralic siliciclastic in the Tupo Formation of China. It is the type species of Paragilsonia.

It was recombined as Tupus orientalis by Li et al. (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2012Paragilsonia orientalis Zhang et al. p. 6 figs. 4-7
2013Tupus orientalis Li et al. p. 125 fig. 3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
infraclassHydropalaeopteraRohdendorf 1969
RankNameAuthor
Euhydropalaeoptera
OdonatopteraMartynov 1932
Palaeodonatoptera
Plesiodonatoptera
Apodonatoptera
Paneodonatoptera
Neodonatoptera
orderMeganisoptera
familyMeganeuridae
subfamilyTupinae()
genusTupusSellards 1906
speciesorientalis()

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.

Tupus orientalis Zhang et al. 2012
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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 Westphalian B to the top of the Bashkirian or 316.90000 to 315.20000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bashkirian323.2 - 315.2China (Ningxia) Paragilsonia orientalis (140832)
Westphalian B - Westphalian C316.9 - 309.8China (Ningxia) Tupus orientalis (139576)