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Palaeocarria ornata

Insecta - Protorthoptera

Taxonomy
Palaeocarria ornata was named by Cockerell (1917). Its type specimen is USNM 65024, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Morris, Mazon Creek (J.C. Carr coll), which is in a Westphalian D interdistributary bay mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois. It is the type species of Palaeocarria.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1917Palaeocarria ornata Cockerell p. 80 fig. 2,3
1922Palaeocarria ornata Handlirsch p. 88

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
orderProtorthoptera
genusPalaeocarria
speciesornata

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.

†Palaeocarria ornata Cockerell 1917
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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: Westphalian D or 309.80000 to 307.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Westphalian D309.8 - 307.5USA (Illinois) Palaeocarria ornata (type locality: 122527)