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Onthophagus everestae

Insecta - Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae

Taxonomy
Onthophagus everestae was named by Pierce (1946). Its type specimen is LACMIP 89.3 (LACMIP Type 3057), a cephalon/head, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Rancho La Brea, Pit 81 (LACMIP 89), which is in a Rancholabrean tar tar in California.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1946Onthophagus everestae Pierce p. 131 figs. 15-17
1981Onthophagus everestae Miller et al. p. 627 fig. 1
2016Onthophagus everestae Tarasov et al. p. 20

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
RankNameAuthor
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyScarabaeoidea
familyScarabaeidae()
subfamilyScarabaeinae
tribeOnthophagini()
genusOnthophagus
specieseverestae

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.

Onthophagus everestae Pierce 1946
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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: Rancholabrean or 0.30000 to 0.01200 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Rancholabrean0.3 - 0.012USA (California) Onthophagus everestae (type locality: 152006)