Tonganoxichnus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Subclassis: Monocondylia
Ordo: Archaeognatha

Familia: †Dasyleptidae
Ichnogenus: Tonganoxichnus
Ichnospecies: T. buildexensis – T. ottawensis – T. robledoensis

[list of ichnospecies after Engel (2009: 41, table 1)]
Name

†Tonganoxichnus Mángano, Buatois, Maples & Lanier, 1997
References

Braddy, S.J.; Briggs, D.E. 2002: New Lower Permian nonmarine arthropod trace fossils from New Mexico and South Africa. Journal of paleontology, 76(3): 546–557.
Engel, M.S. 2009: A new Lower Permian bristletail from the Wellington Formation in Kansas (Archaeognatha: Dasyleptidae). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 112: 40–44.
Mángano, M.G.; Buatois, L.A.; Maples, C.G.; Lanier, W.P. 1997: Tonganoxichnus, a new insect trace from the Upper Carboniferous of eastern Kansas. Lethaia, 30: 113–125.

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