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Pteroporus antiquus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae

Taxonomy
Hydroporus antiquus was named by Heer (1862). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Oeningen (Bruckmann collection), which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany. It is the type species of Pteroporus.

It was recombined as Pteroporus antiquus by Nilsson (2001).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1862Hydroporus antiquus Heer p. 42 figs. Pl 2, fig 15
1864Hydroporus antiquus Heer p. 383 fig. 282
2001Pteroporus antiquus Nilsson p. 268

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderAdephaga
familyDytiscidae()
subfamilyHydroporinae()
tribeHydroporini
genusPteroporus
speciesantiquus()

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.

†Pteroporus antiquus Heer 1862
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available