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Xyela (Pinicolites) graciosa

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Xyelidae

Taxonomy
Pinicolites graciosus was named by Meunier (1920). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Rott (Bauckhorn coll), which is in a MP 30 lacustrine - large lignite in Germany. It is the type species of Pinicolites.

It was recombined as Pleroneura graciosa by Statz (1936); it was recombined as Xyela (Pinicolites) graciosa by Rasnitsyn (1995), Taeger et al. (2010).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1920Pinicolites graciosus Meunier p. 896 figs. Pl 1, fig 5; text-fig 4
1936Pleroneura graciosa Statz p. 262 fig. 1
1995Xyela (Pinicolites) graciosa Rasnitsyn p. 2 figs. 1-4
2010Xyela (Pinicolites) graciosa Taeger et al. p. 682

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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
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
superfamilyXyeloidea
familyXyelidae
subfamilyXyelinae
tribeXyelini
genusXyelaDalman 1819
subgenusPinicolites()
speciesgraciosa()

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.

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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: Chattian or 27.30000 to 23.04000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chattian27.3 - 23.04Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) Pleuroneura graciosa (122010)
MP 3027.3 - 23.04Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen) Pinicolites graciosus (138696)