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Moltenojurina parva

Insecta - Glosselytrodea - Polycytellidae

Taxonomy
Moltenojurina parva was named by Béthoux and Anderson (2021). Its type specimen is PRE/F/20922, a forewing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Birds River (Bir 111), which is in a Carnian lacustrine - small shale in the Molteno Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Moltenojurina.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2021Moltenojurina parva Béthoux and Anderson p. 556 fig. 4
2022Moltenojurina parva Pérez-de la Fuente et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
orderGlosselytrodea
familyPolycytellidaeTillyard 1922
genusMoltenojurina
speciesparva

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.

†Moltenojurina parva Béthoux and Anderson 2021
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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: Carnian or 237.00000 to 228.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Carnian237.0 - 228.0South Africa (Eastern Cape) Moltenojurina parva (type locality: 23142)