Dinokanaga wilsoni

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Mecoptera

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Antliophora Ordo: Mecoptera

Subordo:Pistillifera
Superfamilia:Panorpoidea
Familia: †Dinopanorpidae
Genus: †Dinokanaga
Species: †Dinokanaga wilsoni

Name

• †Dinokanaga wilsoni Archibald, 2005

Type Material

• Holotype: UAFIC5004a.b
  • Repository: University of Alberta Freshwater Invertebrate Collection, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
    • Collector: Mark Wilson, 1975

Type locality

• Early Eocene, Ypresian; Eocene Okanogan Highlands; Princeton Group, Allenby Formation, Vermillion Bluffs Shale Unit; Whipsaw Creek, Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, British Columbia, Canada

Etymology

• "The specific epithet is from the surname of Mark Wilson, a paleontologist at the University of Alberta, in honour of his extensive work in the Eocene Okanagan Highlands, including the first broad, regional studies of its insect fauna (e.g., Wilson 1977)."

Distribution

Eocene

• Ypresian
• Eocene Okanagan Highlands
  • Princeton Group, Allenby Formation, Vermillion Bluffs Shale Unit; Whipsaw Creek, Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, British Columbia, Canada

References

• Archibald, S.B. 2005. New Dinopanorpidae (Insecta: Mecoptera) from the Eocene Okanagan Highlands (British Columbia, Canada and Washington State, USA). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42(2): 119–136. doi:10.1139/e04-073. ISSN 0008-4077.  Reference page.