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Paraprefica kelleri

Taxonomy
Paraprefica kelleri was named by Mayr (1999). Its type specimen is SMF-ME 3376, a partial skeleton (caudal half and left wing of an articulated skeleton), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Grube Messel Pit (Senckenberg SMF collection), which is in a MP 11 crater lake claystone in the Messel Formation of Germany.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1999Paraprefica kelleri Mayr pp. 526-529 figs. 6,7,9-11
2002Paraprefica kelleri Mlikovsky p. 200

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RankNameAuthor
—StrisoresBaird 1858
genusParaprefica
RankNameAuthor
specieskelleri

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.

†Paraprefica kelleri Mayr 1999
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
No ecological data are available

Age range: MP 11 or 48.60000 to 40.40000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 1148.6 - 40.4Germany (Hessen) Paraprefica kelleri (type locality: 120798)