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Mesosolva karataviensis

Insecta - Diptera - Archisargidae

Taxonomy
Prosolva karataviensis was named by Mostovski (1996). Its type specimen is PIN 2784/292, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2784), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.

It was recombined as Mesosolva karataviensis by Zhang (2014) and Grimaldi and Barden (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1996Prosolva karataviensis Mostovski p. 120 fig. 14
1998Prosolva karataviensis Nagatomi and Yang p. 169 fig. 184
2012Prosolva karataviensis Oberprieler and Yeates p. 642
2014Mesosolva karataviensis Zhang p. 863
2016Mesosolva karataviensis Grimaldi and Barden p. 26

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
superfamilyArchisargoidea
familyArchisargidae
subfamilyArchisarginae
genusMesosolva
specieskarataviensis()

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.

†Mesosolva karataviensis Mostovski 1996
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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: 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 - 157.3Kazakhstan (Chimkent) Prosolva karataviensis (type locality: 113439)