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Palaeoapsilocephala vagabunda

Insecta - Diptera - Apsilocephalidae

Taxonomy
Rueppellia vagabunda was named by Cockerell (1927). Its type specimen is BMNH IN 26827, an exoskeleton (complete fly), and it is an impression. Its type locality is Florissant (BMNH Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

It was recombined as Apsilocephala vagabunda by Hauser and Irwin (2005) and Zhang et al. (2017); it was recombined as Palaeoapsilocephala vagabunda by Hauser and Greenwalt (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1927Rueppellia vagabunda Cockerell p. 163
2005Apsilocephala vagabunda Hauser and Irwin p. 397 fig. 5
2017Apsilocephala vagabunda Zhang et al. p. 526
2022Palaeoapsilocephala vagabunda Hauser and Greenwalt p. 27

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
Heterodactyla
superfamilyAsiloidea
familyApsilocephalidae
genusPalaeoapsilocephala
speciesvagabunda()

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.

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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: Chadronian or 37.20000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Rueppellia vagabunda (type locality: 124680)