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Grimmenia tillyardi

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Taxonomy
Grimmenia tillyardi was named by Kopeć et al. (2017). Its type specimen is BMNH I.3328, a wing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Alderton Hill (Slatter collection), which is in a Falciferum marine limestone in the Whitby Mudstone Formation of the United Kingdom.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2017Grimmenia tillyardi Kopeć et al. p. 4 fig. 4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
suborderNematoceraLatreille 1825
infraorderTipulomorpha
superfamilyTipuloidea
familyLimoniidae
subfamilyArchitipulinae()
genusGrimmenia()
speciestillyardi

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.

†Grimmenia tillyardi Kopeć et al. 2017
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available