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Dinopanorpa megarche

Insecta - Mecoptera - Dinopanorpidae

Taxonomy
Dinopanorpa megarche was named by Cockerell (1925). Its type specimen is USNM 69173, a hindwing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Amagu River, Primorye, which is in a Rupelian lacustrine - small shale in the Khutsin Formation of the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Dinopanorpa.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1925Dinopanorpa megarche Cockerell p. 2 figs. Pl 1, fig 1
1972Dinopanorpa megarche Carpenter p. 83 fig. 6,9
1978Dinopanorpa megarche Willmann p. 83

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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
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderMecopteraPackard 1886
suborderPistillifera
infraorderOpisthogonopora
—Panorpomorpha
—Panorpina
—Panorpini
superfamilyPanorpoidea
familyDinopanorpidae
genusDinopanorpa
speciesmegarche

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.

†Dinopanorpa megarche Cockerell 1925
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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: Rupelian or 33.90000 to 27.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Rupelian33.9 - 27.3Russian Federation Dinopanorpa megarche (type locality: 122745)