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Rymosia foersteri

Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae

Taxonomy
Rhymosia foersteri was named by Theobald (1937). Its type specimen is Bale Museum R 1024, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Kleinkembs, which is in a Rupelian lacustrine - large marl/limestone in the Salt Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Rymosia foersteri by Evenhuis (1994) and Oliveira and Amorim (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Rhymosia foersteri Theobald p. 222 figs. Pl V fig 12; Pl XVI fig 5
1994Rymosia foersteri Evenhuis p. 165
2021Rymosia foersteri Oliveira and Amorim p. 106

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familyMycetophilidae
subfamilyMycetophilinae
tribeExechiiniEnderlein 1936
genusRymosia
speciesfoersteri()

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.

Rymosia foersteri Theobald 1937
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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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Early/Lower Oligocene or 33.90000 to 28.40000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 28.4France Boletina meigeniana (121476)
Rupelian33.9 - 28.1Germany Rhymosia foersteri (type locality: 122407)