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Paragrilium barypus

Insecta - Coleoptera

Taxonomy
Elaterium barypus was named by Westwood (1854). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Durlston Bay, Lower Purbeck, Swanage (Brodie coll.), which is in a Berriasian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Paragrilium barypus by Handlirsch (1906).

Entered
by J. Karr (authorized by M. Clapham) on 2013-01-30; modified by M. Clapham on 2014-01-05

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1854Elaterium barypus Westwood pp. 389, 394 figs. Pl 16 fig 5
1906Paragrilium barypus Handlirsch p. 553 figs. Pl XlV fig 34

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
genusParagrilium
speciesbarypus()

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.

†Paragrilium barypus Westwood 1854
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available