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Canthyloscelidae

Insecta - Diptera - Canthyloscelidae

Taxonomy
Canthyloscelidae was named by Shannon (1927). It is extant.

It was assigned to Scatopsoidea by Kovalev (1985).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1927Canthyloscelidae Shannon
1960Hyperoscelidae Hardy and Nagatomi p. 263
1985Canthyloscelidae Kovalev p. 176

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
infraorderPsychodomorpha
superfamilyScatopsoidea
familyCanthyloscelidaeShannon 1927
familyCanthyloscelidaeShannon 1927

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.

Fm. Canthyloscelidae Shannon 1927
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G. †Prohyperoscelis Kovalev 1985
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G. Synneuron Lundström 1910
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Synneuron eomontana Amorim and Greenwalt 2020
Synneuron jelli Amorim and Greenwalt 2020
Invalid names: Hyperoscelididae Hardy and Nagatomi 1960 [synonym]
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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Bajocian to the top of the Lutetian or 170.30000 to 41.30000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 166.1 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bajocian - Bathonian170.3 - 166.1Russian Federation (Krasnoyarsk) Prohyperoscelis jurassicus (118010)
Late/Upper Aptian122.46 - 113.0Australia (Victoria) Mycetophilidae indet. (77192)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3USA (Montana) Synneuron eomontana (135665)