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Macropsontus

Insecta - Archaeognatha - Meinertellidae

Taxonomy
Macropsontus was named by Silvestri (1911). It is extant.

It was assigned to Meinertellidae by Mendes and Wunderlich (2013) and Sánchez-García et al. (2019).

Species

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1911Macropsontus Silvestri
2013Macropsontus Mendes and Wunderlich p. 14
2019Macropsontus Sánchez-García et al. p. 686

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderArchaeognatha()
suborderMachilida(Grassi 1888)
superfamilyMachiloideaGrasse 1888
familyMeinertellidaeVerhoeff 1910
genusMacropsontusSilvestri 1911

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.

G. Macropsontus Silvestri 1911
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Macropsontus azari Sánchez-García et al. 2019
Macropsontus bachae Sánchez-García et al. 2019
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 Early/Lower Barremian to the top of the Early/Lower Cenomanian or 130.00000 to 93.50000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Barremian130.0 - 125.45Lebanon M. azari (153333) M. bachae (122471)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Myanmar M. sp. (144466)