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Cretaceogaster pygmaeus

Insecta - Diptera - Stratiomyidae

Taxonomy
Cretaceogaster pygmaeus was named by Teskey (1971). Its type specimen is MCZ 6954, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Cedar Lake (MCZ collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in Canada. It is the type species of Cretaceogaster.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1971Cretaceogaster pygmaeus Teskey p. 1660 figs. 1-4
1998Cretaceogaster pygmaeus Nagatomi and Yang p. 138 figs. 86-89
1999Cretaceogaster pygmaeus Grimaldi and Cumming p. 17 fig. 11

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
Homeodactyla
infraorderStratiomyomorpha
familyStratiomyidae()
genusCretaceogaster
speciespygmaeus

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.

Cretaceogaster pygmaeus Teskey 1971
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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: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Canada (Manitoba) Cretaceogaster pygmaeus (type locality: 122354)
Middle Campanian83.5 - 70.6Canada (Alberta) Cretaceogaster pygmaeus (122389)