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Dixella intacta

Insecta - Diptera - Dixidae

Taxonomy
Dixella intacta was named by Greenwalt and Moulton (2016). Its type specimen is USNM 546204, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Deep Ford site, Middle Fork Flathead River (Kishenehn), which is in a Lutetian lacustrine - large shale in the Kishenehn Formation of Montana.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2016Dixella intacta Greenwalt and Moulton p. 4 figs. 1, 2, 3.1, 4.1, 5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyCulicoidea
familyDixidaeVan der Wulp 1877
genusDixella(Dyar and Shannon 1924)
speciesintacta

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.

†Dixella intacta Greenwalt and Moulton 2016
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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: Lutetian or 47.80000 to 41.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3USA (Montana) Dixella intacta (type locality: 183409)