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Forficula paleocaenica

Insecta - Dermaptera - Forficulidae

Taxonomy
Forficula paleocaenica was named by Willmann (1990). Its type specimen is FM 178, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Knudegrav, Fur, which is in a Ypresian offshore ramp claystone in the Ølst Formation of Denmark.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1990Forficula paleocaenica Willmann p. 18 figs. Pl 1, figs a-f; text-figs 1-4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Haplocercata
orderDermaptera
—PandermapteraEngel
—ApodermapteraEngel
suborderNeodermaptera
infraorderEpidermaptera
—Eteodermaptera
—Eudermaptera()
superfamilyForficuloidea
familyForficulidae
subfamilyForficulinae
genusForficula
speciespaleocaenica

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.

†Forficula paleocaenica Willmann 1990
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available