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Platycoxa jurassica

Insecta - Coleoptera - Trachypachidae

Taxonomy
Platycoxa jurassica was named by Ponomarenko (1977). Its type specimen is PIN 2496/6, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Kenderlyk, Akkolka River (PIN collection 2496), which is in a Norian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Tologoi Formation of Kazakhstan.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1977Platycoxa jurassica Ponomarenko p. 49 figs. Pl 4, fig 3; text-fig 22b
2022Platycoxa jurassica Kirejtshuk and Ansorge p. 971

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderAdephaga
familyTrachypachidaeThomson 1857
subfamilyEodromeinae
genusPlatycoxa
speciesjurassica

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.

†Platycoxa jurassica Ponomarenko 1977
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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: Norian or 227.30000 to 205.70000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Norian227.3 - 205.7Kazakhstan Platycoxa jurassica (type locality: 105055)