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Prohousea pachygaster

Insecta - Diptera

Taxonomy
Pleciomyia pachygaster was named by Handlirsch (1939). Its type specimen is BMNH I.244, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Durlston Bay, Middle Purbeck, Swanage (BMNH collection), which is in a Berriasian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in the Durlston Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Pleciomyia, Prohousea.

It was recombined as Prohousea pachygaster by Jarzembowski (1996).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1939Pleciomyia pachygaster Handlirsch p. 161
1996Prohousea pachygaster Jarzembowski p. 157 fig. 4,5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilyBibionoidea
genusProhousea
speciespachygaster()

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.

Prohousea pachygaster Handlirsch 1939
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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: Late/Upper Berriasian or 145.00000 to 140.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Berriasian145.0 - 140.2United Kingdom (England) Pleciomyia pachygaster (type locality: 153649)