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Palaeopsylla (Peusianapsylla) baltica

Insecta - Siphonaptera - Ctenophthalmidae

Taxonomy
Palaeopsylla (Peusianapsylla) baltica was named by Beaucournu and Wunderlich (2001). Its type specimen is Wunderlich F269, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic amber (Wunderlich collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Palaeopsylla baltica by Pielowska et al. (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2001Palaeopsylla (Peusianapsylla) baltica Beaucournu and Wunderlich p. 296 figs. 1-4
2018Palaeopsylla baltica Pielowska et al. p. 240

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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
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderSiphonapteraLatreille 1825
familyCtenophthalmidaeRothschild 1915
subfamilyCtenophthalminaeRothschild 1915
genusPalaeopsyllaWagner 1903
subgenusPeusianapsylla
speciesbaltica

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.

†Palaeopsylla (Peusianapsylla) baltica Beaucournu and Wunderlich 2001
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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: Priabonian or 37.71000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Palaeopsylla baltica (type locality: 124318)