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Cretacoformica explicata

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Trupochalcididae

Taxonomy
Cretacoformica explicata was named by Jell and Duncan (1986). Its type specimen is NMVP102501, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is NMVPL425, Koonwarra, which is in an Aptian pond claystone/siltstone in Australia. It is the type species of Cretacoformica.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1986Cretacoformica explicata Jell and Duncan p. 191 fig. 69
2019Cretacoformica explicata Rasnitsyn and Öhm-Kühnle p. 93 fig. 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
infraorderProctotrupomorpha
—Microprocta
familyTrupochalcididae
genusCretacoformica
speciesexplicata

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.

†Cretacoformica explicata Jell and Duncan 1986
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Diagnosis
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