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Aenigmatopsis regularis

Insecta - Palaeodictyoptera

Taxonomy
Aenigmatodes regularis was named by Bolton (1921). Its type specimen is British Museum In. 18604, a wing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Monckton Main Colliery, which is in a Westphalian B delta plain siliciclastic in the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Aenigmatopsis.

It was recombined as Aenigmatopsis regularis by Handlirsch (1937).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1921Aenigmatodes regularis Bolton p. 71 figs. 21; Pl. VI, fig. 7
1937Aenigmatopsis regularis Handlirsch p. 48

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
superorderPalaeodictyopterida(Bechly 1996)
orderPalaeodictyoptera
genusAenigmatopsis
speciesregularis()

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.

†Aenigmatopsis regularis Bolton 1921
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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: Westphalian B or 316.90000 to 314.60000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Westphalian B316.9 - 314.6United Kingdom (England) Aenigmatodes regularis (type locality: 127289)