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Anconatus niger

Insecta - Hemiptera

Taxonomy
Pterostigma nigrum was named by Scudder (1890). Its type specimen is 6090, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

It was recombined as Anconatus niger by Heie (1967) and Heie and Wegierek (2011).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Pterostigma nigrum Scudder p. 275
1894Pterostigma nigrum Scudder p. 356 figs. Pl 104, fig 6; pl 106, fig 17
1967Anconatus niger Heie p. 221
2011Anconatus niger Heie and Wegierek p. 21

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Clareocercaria
Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
Condylognatha
orderHemiptera
suborderSternorrhyncha()
AphidiformesSchlee 1969
infraorderAphidomorpha
superfamilyAphidoidea
genusAnconatus
speciesniger()

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.

Anconatus niger Scudder 1890
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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: Chadronian or 37.20000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Pterostigma nigrum (type locality: 106384)