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Yanqingia jurassica

Insecta - Coleoptera

Taxonomy
Yanqingia jurassica was named by Hong and Xiao (1997). Its type specimen is Beijing Institute of Geology IH005, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Yanqing district, which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian terrestrial mudstone in the Houcheng Formation of China. It is the type species of Yanqingia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1997Yanqingia jurassica Hong and Xiao p. 5 figs. Pl 1, fig 3; text-fig 3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
genusYanqingia
speciesjurassica

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.

†Yanqingia jurassica Hong and Xiao 1997
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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: base of the Callovian to the top of the Oxfordian or 166.10000 to 157.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Callovian - Oxfordian166.1 - 157.3China (Beijing Shi) Yanqingia jurassica (type locality: 162200)