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Cyttaromyia fuscula

Insecta - Diptera - Cylindrotomidae

Taxonomy
Asilopsis fusculus was named by Cockerell (1921). Its type specimen is USNM 66572, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is White River (Scudder collection), which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Utah.

It was recombined as Cyttaromyia fuscula by de Jong (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1921Asilopsis fusculus Cockerell p. 248
2019Cyttaromyia fuscula de Jong p. 12 fig. 7

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
suborderNematoceraLatreille 1825
infraorderTipulomorpha
superfamilyTipuloidea
familyCylindrotomidae
subfamilyCylindrotominae
genusCyttaromyia
speciesfuscula()

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.

†Cyttaromyia fuscula Cockerell 1921
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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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Bridgerian or 50.30000 to 46.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bridgerian50.3 - 46.2USA (Utah) Asilopsis fusculus (type locality: 116369)