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Cretothereva antiqua

Insecta - Diptera - Therevidae

Taxonomy
Cretothereva antiqua was named by Carmo et al. (2021). Its type specimen is MZ053420, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Crato (Vulcano collection), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large carbonate in the Crato Formation of Brazil. It is the type species of Cretothereva.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2021Cretothereva antiqua Carmo et al. p. 3 figs. 2, 3, 4A

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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
familyTherevidae
genusCretothereva
speciesantiqua

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.

†Cretothereva antiqua Carmo et al. 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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Late/Upper Aptian or 122.46000 to 113.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Aptian122.46 - 113.0Brazil (Ceará) Cretothereva antiqua (type locality: 125511)