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Gilsonia titana

Insecta - Meganisoptera - Meganeuridae

Taxonomy
Gilsonia titana was named by Meunier (1909). It is an impression. Its type locality is Commentry (MNHN later coll), which is in a Gzhelian lacustrine deltaic shale in the Commentry Shales Formation of France.

It was recombined as Meganeurula titana by Carpenter (1943), Brauckmann and Zessin (1989).

Entered
by M. Clapham on 2011-01-30; modified by M. Clapham on 2013-11-16

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1909Gilsonia titana Meunier p. 37 fig. 1
1917Gilsonia titana Lameere p. 163
1919Gilsonia titana Handlirsch p. 571 fig. 70
1922Gilsonia titana Handlirsch p. 64
1943Meganeurula titana Carpenter p. 547 fig. 3
1989Meganeurula titana Brauckmann and Zessin p. 183
2009Gilsonia titana Nel et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
infraclassHydropalaeopteraRohdendorf 1969
—Euhydropalaeoptera
—OdonatopteraMartynov 1932
—Palaeodonatoptera
—Plesiodonatoptera
—Apodonatoptera
—Paneodonatoptera
—Neodonatoptera
orderMeganisoptera
familyMeganeuridae
subfamilyTupinae()
genusGilsonia
speciestitana

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.

†Gilsonia titana Meunier 1909
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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: Gzhelian or 303.70000 to 298.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Gzhelian303.7 - 298.9France Gilsonia titana (type locality: 121979)