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Mischoptera douglassi

Insecta - Megasecoptera - Mischopteridae

Taxonomy
Mischoptera douglassi was named by Carpenter and Richardson (1968). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Pit 6, Coal City, Mazon Creek (Douglass coll), which is in a Westphalian D deltaic mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1968Mischoptera douglassi Carpenter and Richardson p. 301 figs. Pl 24, fig 1; pl 25, figs 4,5; pl 27, figs 1,2; pl 28, fig 1; text-fig 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
superorderPalaeodictyopterida(Bechly 1996)
—Megasecopteromorpha
orderMegasecoptera
familyMischopteridae
genusMischoptera
speciesdouglassi

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.

†Mischoptera douglassi Carpenter and Richardson 1968
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available