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Donacia wightoni

Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae

Taxonomy
Donacia (Donacia) wightoni was named by Askevold (1990). Its type specimen is UAPC 5566(407), an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Site 1 (near confluence of Blindman and Red Deer Rivers), which is in a Tiffanian pond limestone in the Paskapoo Formation of Canada.

It was recombined as Donacia wightoni by Nadein (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1990Donacia (Donacia) wightoni Askevold p. 2140 fig. 8,9
1994Donacia (Donacia) wightoni Santiago-Blay p. 12
2019Donacia wightoni Nadein p. 599

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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
—Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
—Phytophaga
superfamilyChrysomeloidea
familyChrysomelidae()
subfamilyDonaciinae()
tribeDonaciini
genusDonacia
specieswightoni()

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.

†Donacia wightoni Askevold 1990
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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: Tiffanian or 60.90000 to 57.50000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Tiffanian60.9 - 57.5Canada (Alberta) Donacia wightoni (type locality: 119816 119839)