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Mesochaoborus pallens

Insecta - Diptera - Chaoboridae

Taxonomy
Mesochaoborus pallens was named by Zhang et al. (1986). Its type specimen is Shandong Provincial Museum L84113, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Tuanwang, Laiyang City (Shandong Prov. Museum coll.), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large shale in the Laiyang Formation of China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1986Mesochaoborus pallens Zhang et al. p. 23 figs. Pl 1, fig 4; text-fig 7
2014Mesochaoborus pallens Borkent p. 485

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyCulicoidea
familyChaoboridaeEdwards 1920
genusMesochaoborus
speciespallens

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.

Mesochaoborus pallens Zhang et al. 1986
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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) Mesochaoborus pallens (type locality: 125196)