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Saurophthirus
Taxonomy
Saurophthirus was named by Ponomarenko (1976). It is not extant. It is the type genus of Saurophthiridae, Saurophthiridae.
It was assigned to Siphonaptera by Ponomarenko (1976); to Neoptera by Carpenter (1992); to Saurophthiridae by Gao et al. (2013); and to Saurophthiridae by Strelnikova and Rasnitsyn (2016).
It was assigned to Siphonaptera by Ponomarenko (1976); to Neoptera by Carpenter (1992); to Saurophthiridae by Gao et al. (2013); and to Saurophthiridae by Strelnikova and Rasnitsyn (2016).
Species
Entered
by E. Leckey (authorized by D. Smith) on 2009-08-25; modified by M. Clapham on 2018-04-04
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1976 | Saurophthirus Ponomarenko |
| 1992 | Saurophthirus Carpenter |
| 2013 | Saurophthirus Gao et al. p. 1261 |
| 2016 | Saurophthirus Strelnikova and Rasnitsyn p. 1 |
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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.
G. †Saurophthirus Ponomarenko 1976
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†Saurophthirus exquisitus Gao et al. 2013
†Saurophthirus laevigatus Zhang et al. 2020
†Saurophthirus longipes Ponomarenko 1976
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Barremian to the top of the Aptian or 125.77000 to 113.20000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Barremian | China (Liaoning) | S. exquisitus (111716) S. exquisitus, S. laevigatus (140491) | |
| Aptian | Russian Federation (Buryatia) | S. longipes (105969 118216) |