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Carabites eocenicus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Taxonomy
Carabites eocenicus was named by Cockerell (1921). Its type specimen is USNM 66577, an elytra (pair of elytron), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is White River (Scudder collection), which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Utah.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1921Carabites eocenicus Cockerell p. 253

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderAdephaga
familyCarabidae()
genusCarabites
specieseocenicus

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.

†Carabites eocenicus Cockerell 1921
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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: Bridgerian or 50.30000 to 46.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bridgerian50.3 - 46.2USA (Utah) Carabites eocenicus (type locality: 116369)