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Plecia collossea
Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae
Taxonomy
Protomyia collossea was named by von Heyden and von Heyden (1865). Its type specimen is NHMUK In 58789, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Rott (Krantz Bonn coll), which is in a MP 30 lacustrine - large shale in the Rott Formation of Germany.
It was synonymized subjectively with Plecia morio by Skartveit and Nel (2017); it was recombined as Plecia collossea by Statz (1943), Evenhuis (1994) and Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).
It was synonymized subjectively with Plecia morio by Skartveit and Nel (2017); it was recombined as Plecia collossea by Statz (1943), Evenhuis (1994) and Skartveit and Wedmann (2021).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1865 | Protomyia collossea von Heyden and von Heyden p. 21 figs. Pl 8, fig 3 |
| 1914 | Plecia superba Meunier p. 183 |
| 1915 | Plecia superba Meunier p. 207 figs. Pl 21, fig 2; text-fig 2 |
| 1943 | Plecia philippi Statz pp. 10-11 figs. Pl I fig 1; Pl V fig 50 |
| 1943 | Plecia imperialis Statz pp. 13-14 figs. Pl I fig 3; Pl V fig 48 |
| 1943 | Plecia collossea Statz p. 14 |
| 1994 | Plecia collossea Evenhuis |
| 2021 | Plecia collossea Skartveit and Wedmann p. 19 figs. 17-19, 103-107 |
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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.
†Plecia collossea von Heyden and von Heyden 1865
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Invalid names: Plecia imperialis Statz 1943 [synonym], Plecia philippi Statz 1943 [synonym], Plecia superba Meunier 1914 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: Chattian or 28.10000 to 23.03000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| MP 30 | Germany | Protomyia collossea (type locality: 123945) | |
| MP 30 | Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen) | Plecia superba (138696) | |
| Chattian | Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) | Plecia philippi, Plecia imperialis, Plecia sp. 1, Plecia sp. 2, Plecia rhenana (122010) |