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Lygobius knowltoni

Insecta - Blattaria - Lygobiidae

Taxonomy
Lygobius knowltoni was named by Mitchell (1908). Its type specimen is USNM 50461, a tegmen, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Meriditt mine, 6 miles southwest of Geyser, which is in an Aptian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Kootenai Formation of Montana. It is the type species of Lygobius.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1908Lygobius knowltoni Mitchell p. 86 fig. 25

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—ExopterygotaSharp 1899
orderBlattaria(Latreille 1810)
familyLygobiidae()
genusLygobius
speciesknowltoni

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.

†Lygobius knowltoni Mitchell 1908
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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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Aptian or 125.00000 to 113.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Aptian125.0 - 113.0USA (Montana) Lygobius knowltoni (type locality: 152619)