Whetwhetaksa millerae

Whetwhetaksa millerae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cephalozygoptera

Superregnum: Eukaryota 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 Superordo: Odonatoptera Ordo: Odonata Subordo: †Cephalozygoptera

Superfamilia: †"Sieblosioid Group"
Familia: †Whetwhetaksidae
Genus: †Whetwhetaksa
Species: †Whetwhetaksa millerae

Name

• †Whetwhetaksa millerae Archibald, S.B. & Cannings, R.A., 2021

Type material

• Holotype: SR 06-01-38
  • Repository: Stonerose Interpretive Center and Eocene Fossil Beds, Republic, Ferry County, Washington, USA
    • Collected: 13 June 2005 by Gregg Wilson
• Paratype: SR 10-36-10
  • Repository: Stonerose Interpretive Center and Eocene Fossil Beds, Republic, Ferry County, Washington, USA
    • Collected: June 2010 by Shannon Miller
• Paratype: SRUI 99-98-34
  • Repository: Stonerose Interpretive Center and Eocene Fossil Beds, Republic, Ferry County, Washington, USA
    • Collected: 6 October 2011 by Shannon Miller

Type locality

• Early Eocene, Ypresian; Eocene Okanogan Highlands; Boot Hill (UWBM Location B4131), Tom Thumb Tuff Member, Klondike Mountain Formation, Republic, Washington, USA

Etymology

• "The specific epithet is a patronymic formed from the surname of Shannon Miller, who found paratypes 1 and 2"

Distribution

Eocene

• Ypresian
• Eocene Okanagan Highlands
  • Tom Thumb tuff, Klondike Mountain Formation; "Boot Hill" (B4131), Republic, Ferry County, Washington, USA
  • Tom Thumb tuff, Klondike Mountain Formation; "Corner Lot" (A0307), Republic, Ferry County, Washington, USA

References

• Archibald, S.B., Cannings, R.A., Erickson, R.J., Bybee, S.M. & Mathewes, R.W. 2021. The Cephalozygoptera, a new, extinct suborder of Odonata with new taxa from the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands, western North America. Zootaxa 4934(1): 1–133. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4934.1.1 . Reference page.