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Protorabus crassus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Taxonomy
Protorabus crassus was named by Ponomarenko (1989). Its type specimen is PIN 3924/33, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Shiviya locality (PIN collection 3924), which is in a Hauterivian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Daya Formation of the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1989Protorabus crassus Ponomarenko p. 53 fig. 3a,b

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderAdephaga
familyCarabidae()
subfamilyProtorabinae
genusProtorabus
speciescrassus

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.

†Protorabus crassus Ponomarenko 1989
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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: Hauterivian or 132.90000 to 129.40000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Hauterivian132.9 - 129.4Russian Federation (Chita) Protorabus crassus (type locality: 125409)