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Sharasargus ruptus

Insecta - Diptera - Archisargidae

Taxonomy
Sharasargus ruptus was named by Mostovski (1996). Its type specimen is PIN 4270/2274, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Shar-Teg, outcrop 443/1 (PIN collection 4270), which is in a Tithonian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Sharteg Formation of Mongolia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1996Sharasargus ruptus Mostovski p. 124 fig. 19
1998Sharasargus ruptus Nagatomi and Yang p. 169 fig. 185
2014Sharasargus ruptus Zhang p. 868
2016Sharasargus ruptus Grimaldi and Barden p. 27

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
superfamilyArchisargoidea
familyArchisargidae
subfamilyArchisarginae
genusSharasargus
speciesruptus

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.

†Sharasargus ruptus Mostovski 1996
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available