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Metrioxenoides pusillus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Nemonychidae

Taxonomy
Metrioxenoides pusillus was named by Gratshev et al. (1998). Its type specimen is Booth Museum 019615/-6, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Suckthumb Quarry, Isle of Portland (Hard Slatt), which is in a Berriasian peritidal lime mudstone in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1998Metrioxenoides pusillus Gratshev et al. p. 324 fig. 1
1999Metrioxenoides pusillus Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal p. 28
2010Metrioxenoides pusillus Legalov p. 80
2012Metrioxenoides pusillus Legalov p. 689
2014Metrioxenoides pusillus Gratshev and Legalov p. 931 fig. 14i
2015Metrioxenoides pusillus Legalov p. 1450

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
—Phytophaga
superfamilyCurculionoidea
familyNemonychidae
subfamilyPaleocartinae
tribeMetrioxenoidini
genusMetrioxenoides
speciespusillus

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.

†Metrioxenoides pusillus Gratshev et al. 1998
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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: Early/Lower Berriasian or 143.10000 to 141.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Berriasian143.1 - 141.0United Kingdom (England) Metrioxenoides pusillus (type locality: 123428)