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Metaraphidia confusa

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Metaraphidiidae

Taxonomy
Metaraphidia confusa was named by Whalley (1985). Its type specimen is GSM 117552, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Charmouth (GSM), which is in a Sinemurian marine siliciclastic in the Charmouth Mudstone Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Metaraphidia.

It was recombined as Mesoraphidia confusa by Whalley (1988).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1985Metaraphidia confusa Whalley p. 148 figs. Figs 44-45
1988Mesoraphidia confusa Whalley p. 61
2002Metaraphidia confusa Engel p. 19
2011Metaraphidia confusa Bechly and Wolf-Schwenninger p. 232

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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()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
superorderNeuropterida
orderRaphidioptera()
suborderRaphidiomorpha
—Raphidiformia
—Euraphidioptera
familyMetaraphidiidae
genusMetaraphidia
speciesconfusa

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.

†Metaraphidia confusa Whalley 1985
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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: Late/Upper Sinemurian or 199.50000 to 192.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Sinemurian199.5 - 192.9United Kingdom (England) Metaraphidia confusa (type locality: 114646)