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Hylobittacus fossilis

Insecta - Mecoptera - Bittacidae

Taxonomy
Bittacus fossilis was named by Carpenter (1954). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic amber (MCZ collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Hylobittacus fossilis by Krzemiński (2007).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1954Bittacus fossilis Carpenter p. 36 figs. 3A, 4B
1978Bittacus fossilis Willmann p. 98
2007Hylobittacus fossilis Krzemiński p. 157 figs. 4, 7B

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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
Aparaglossata
Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderMecopteraPackard 1886
suborderPistillifera
infraorderRaptipedia
familyBittacidaeHandlirsch 1906
genusHylobittacus
speciesfossilis()

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.

Hylobittacus fossilis Carpenter 1954
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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: Priabonian or 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Poland Hylobittacus fossilis (120813 123215)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Bittacus fossilis (type locality: 124205)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation Hylobittacus fossilis (123419)