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Osmylidia requieta

Insecta - Neuroptera - Osmylidae

Taxonomy
Osmylus requietus was named by Scudder (1890). Its type specimen is 8839, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado. It is the type species of Osmylidia, Oligosmylus.

It was recombined as Osmylidia requietus by Cockerell (1908); it was recombined as Oligosmylus requietus by Krüger (1913), Krüger (1913); it was recombined as Osmylidia requieta by Cockerell (1913), Cockerell (1914), Carpenter (1943), Winterton et al. (2019), Makarkin et al. (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Osmylus requietus Scudder p. 162 figs. Pl 14 figs 3, 8
1908Osmylidia requietus Cockerell p. 342
1913Osmylidia requieta Cockerell p. 342 fig. 1
1913Oligosmylus requietus Krüger p. 34
1914Osmylidia requieta Cockerell p. 716 fig. 1
1943Osmylidia requieta Carpenter p. 755 fig. 2
2019Osmylidia requieta Winterton et al. p. 55
2021Osmylidia requieta Makarkin et al. p. 144 fig. 5

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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
Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
superorderNeuropterida
Metaxyneuroptera
Eidoneuroptera
orderNeuroptera
Euneuroptera
superfamilyOsmyloideaLeach 1815
familyOsmylidaeLeach 1815
subfamilyProtosmylinae
genusOsmylidia
speciesrequieta()

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.

Osmylidia requieta Scudder 1890
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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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Chadronian or 37.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.0 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Osmylidia requieta (113749 124624) Osmylidia requietus (106379) Osmylus requietus (type locality: 106384)