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Ephemeridae (burrowing mayfly)

Insecta - Ephemeroptera - Ephemeridae

Taxonomy
Ephemeridae was named by Latreille (1810). It is extant. Its type is Ephemera.

It was assigned to Plectoptera by Haughton (1924); to Ephemeroidea by McCafferty and Edmunds (1979) and McCafferty (1990); and to Fossoriae by Kluge (2004) and Ogden et al. (2009).

Subtaxa
Denina, Ephemera (type genus), Hexageniinae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1810Ephemeridae Latreille
1924Ephemeridae Haughton
1979Ephemeridae McCafferty and Edmunds
1990Ephemeridae McCafferty p. 38
2004Ephemeridae Kluge
2009Ephemeridae Ogden et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
infraclassHydropalaeopteraRohdendorf 1969
RankNameAuthor
—Euhydropalaeoptera
—PanephemeropteraCrampton 1928
—Ephemerida(Latreille 1810)
—Heptabranchia
orderEphemeropteraHyatt and Arms 1890
—EuplectopteraTillyard 1932
—AnteritornaKluge 1993
—BidentisataKluge 1993
—FurcatergaliaKluge 1998
—Fossoriae
familyEphemeridae
familyEphemeridae

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.

Fm. Ephemeridae Latreille 1810 [burrowing mayfly]
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G. †Denina McCafferty 1987
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†Denina dubiloca McCafferty 1987
G. Ephemera Linnaeus 1758
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†Ephemera exsucca Scudder 1890
†Ephemera howarthi Cockerell 1908
†Ephemera immobilis Scudder 1890
†Ephemera interempta Scudder 1890
†Ephemera macilenta Scudder 1890
†Ephemera pumicosa Scudder 1890
†Ephemera tabifica Scudder 1890
Subfm. Hexageniinae McCafferty 1991
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G. Litobrancha McCafferty 1971
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†Litobrancha palearctica McCafferty and Sinitshenkova 1983
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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Eocene to the top of the MN 7 + 8 or 37.20000 to 11.10000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Primorskiy) Litobrancha palearctica (123794)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Denina dubiloca (120610) Ephemeridae indet. (123420)
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Ephemera howarthi (106380 106381 123119) Ephemera tabifica, Ephemera immobilis, Ephemera macilenta, Ephemera pumicosa, Ephemera interempta, Ephemera exsucca (106384)
Late/Upper Eocene37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Ephemera interempta (122093)
MN 7 + 812.75 - 11.1Switzerland (Thurgau) Ephemeridae indet. (46277)