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Semiotus ehrenswaerdi

Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae

Taxonomy
Elater ehrenswaerdi was named by Heer (1870). Its type specimen is Nat. Riks. Ar. 54b, an elytra, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Cap Staratschin, which is in a Danian/Selandian delta plain shale in the Firkanten Formation of Svalbard and Jan Mayen.

It was recombined as Semiotus ehrenswaerdi by Kundrata et al. (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1870Elater ehrenswaerdi Heer p. 74 figs. Pl 16, figs 1a,2-4
1977Semiotus ehrensvaerdi Birket-Smith p. 18 fig. 8
2021Semiotus ehrenswaerdi Kundrata et al. p. 27

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
RankNameAuthor
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderElateriformiaCrowson 1960
superfamilyElateroidea
familyElateridae
subfamilyDendrometrinae()
tribeSemiotini(Jacobson 1913)
genusSemiotusEschscholtz 1829
speciesehrenswaerdi()

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.

Semiotus ehrenswaerdi Heer 1870
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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: base of the Danian to the top of the Selandian or 66.00000 to 59.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Danian - Selandian66.0 - 59.2Svalbard and Jan Mayen Elater ehrenswaerdi (type locality: 122011)