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Minyohelea pumilis

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Minyohelea pumilis was named by Borkent (1995). Its type specimen is CAS 131 and is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Grassy Lake, Medicine Hat (P. Boston collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in the Foremost Formation of Canada. It is the type species of Minyohelea.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1995Minyohelea pumilis Borkent p. 69 fig. 13D
1997Minyohelea pumilis Borkent and Wirth p. 21
2013Minyohelea pumilis Borkent p. 16
2018Minyohelea pumilis Szadziewski p. 224
2020Minyohelea pumilis Borkent and Dominiak p. 40

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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
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidae
subfamilyLeptoconopinaeNoe 1907
genusMinyohelea
speciespumilis

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.

†Minyohelea pumilis Borkent 1995
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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: Middle Campanian or 83.60000 to 72.20000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Campanian83.6 - 72.2Canada (Alberta) Minyohelea pumilis (type locality: 122358 122383)