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Passalus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Passalidae

Taxonomy

Passalus was named by Fabricius (1792). It is extant. It is the type genus of Passalida, Passalinae, Passalini.

It was assigned to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1792); to Coleoptera by Latreille (1796); to Scarabaeides by Latreille (1802); to Passalidae by Cockerell (1927), Carpenter (1992), Krell (2000); and to Passalini by Reyes-Castillo (1977), Bouchard et al. (2011).

Species

P. (Passalus)

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1792	Passalus Fabricius p. 240
1796	Passalus Latreille p. 2
1802	Passalus Latreille p. 156
1927	Passalus Cockerell
1977	Passalus Reyes-Castillo p. 652
1992	Passalus Carpenter
2000	Passalus Krell p. 875
2011	Passalus Bouchard et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia

Rank	Name	Author
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Neuropteriformia
—	Coleopterida
order	Coleoptera
—	Mesocoleoptera
—	Metacoleoptera
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Staphyliniformia
superfamily	Scarabaeoidea
family	Passalidae	()
subfamily	Passalinae
tribe	Passalini
genus	Passalus

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.

G. Passalus Fabricius 1792

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Subg. Passalus (Passalus) Fabricius 1792

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†Passalus (Passalus) indormitus Cockerell 1927

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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: Early/Lower Oligocene or 33.90000 to 27.30000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 27.3 Ma

Collections: one only

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 27.3	USA (Oregon)	P. indormitus (117157)