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Staphylinites obsoletum

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Taxonomy
Staphylinites obsoletum was named by Scudder (1876). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Petrified fish cut (Richardson Coll), which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large diatomite/shale in the Green River Formation of Wyoming. It is the type species of Staphylinites.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1876Staphylinites obsoletum Scudder p. 78
1878Staphylinites obsoletum Scudder p. 762
1890Staphylinites obsoletum Scudder p. 510 figs. Pl 8 fig 32
1900Staphylinites obsoletum Scudder p. 79
2001Staphylinites obsoletum Herman p. 3837

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyStaphylinoidea
familyStaphylinidae()
genusStaphylinitesScudder 1876
speciesobsoletum

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.

†Staphylinites obsoletum Scudder 1876
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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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

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 (Wyoming) Staphylinites obsoletum (type locality: 121306)