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Buprestis sepulta

Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Taxonomy
Buprestis sepulta was named by Scudder (1879). Its type specimen is GSC 53, an elytra, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Nicola river, which is in a Ypresian lacustrine shale/siltstone in Canada.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1879Buprestis sepulta Scudder p. 180
1890Buprestis sepulta Scudder p. 495 figs. Pl 2 fig 26
1895Buprestis sepulta Scudder p. 37
1900Buprestis sepulta Scudder p. 99
2008Buprestis sepulta Bellamy

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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
superfamilyBuprestoidea
familyBuprestidae()
subfamilyBuprestinae
tribeBuprestini
subtribeBuprestina
genusBuprestis
speciessepulta

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.

†Buprestis sepulta Scudder 1879
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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: Ypresian or 56.00000 to 47.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8Canada (British Columbia) Buprestis sepulta (type locality: 122190)