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Polycytella triassica

Insecta - Glosselytrodea - Polycytellidae

Taxonomy
Polycytella triassica was named by Tillyard (1922). Its type specimen is GSQI81, a tegmen, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Denmark Hill Insect Bed (Dunstan 1915-1916 collection), which is in a Norian pond siltstone in the Blackstone Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Polycytella.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1922Polycytella triassica Tillyard p. 459 figs. Pl 53 fig 36
1923Polycytella triassica Tillyard
2021Polycytella triassica Béthoux and Anderson p. 554 fig. 1
2022Polycytella triassica Pérez-de la Fuente et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
orderGlosselytrodea
familyPolycytellidaeTillyard 1922
genusPolycytella
speciestriassica

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.

Polycytella triassica Tillyard 1922
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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: Norian or 228.00000 to 208.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Norian228.0 - 208.5Australia (Queensland) Polycytella triassica (type locality: 111558)