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Scelorhagio mecomastigus

Insecta - Diptera - Rhagionidae

Taxonomy
Scelorhagio mecomastigus was named by Zhang et al. (1993). Its type specimen is Shandong Provincial Museum L88812, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Nanligezhuang, Tuanwang Town, Laiyang City (Shandong Prov. Mus.), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large shale in the Laiyang Formation of China. It is the type species of Scelorhagio.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1993Scelorhagio mecomastigus Zhang et al. p. 665 figs. Pl 1, fig 2; text-fig 3
1998Scelorhagio mecomastigus Nagatomi and Yang p. 135 figs. 82, 83

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
Homeodactyla
infraorderTabanomorphaHennig 1948
familyRhagionidae()
genusScelorhagio
speciesmecomastigus

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.

Scelorhagio mecomastigus Zhang et al. 1993
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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: Aptian or 125.00000 to 113.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Aptian125.0 - 113.0China (Shandong) Scelorhagio mecomastigus (type locality: 106313)