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Eurhinus occultus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Taxonomy
Eurhinus occultus was named by Scudder (1876). Its type specimen is Station 14, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Near Castello's Ranch, Florissant, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

It was recombined as Geralophus occultus by Scudder (1893), Wickham (1911), Wickham (1912), Yunakov and Kirejtshuk (2011), Legalov (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1876Eurhinus occultus Scudder p. 87
1893Geralophus occultus Scudder p. 74 figs. Pl 8, figs 6, 21-24
1911Geralophus occultus Wickham p. 65
1912Geralophus occultus Wickham p. 45
2011Geralophus occultus Yunakov and Kirejtshuk p. 93
2015Geralophus occultus Legalov p. 1492

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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
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
—Phytophaga
superfamilyCurculionoidea
familyCurculionidae()
subfamilyConoderinaeSchoenherr 1833
—BariditaeSchoenherr 1836
tribeBaridiniSchoenherr 1836
subtribeEurhininaLacordaire 1866
genusEurhinus
speciesoccultus

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.

†Eurhinus occultus Scudder 1876
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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: Chadronian or 37.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.0 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Eurhinus occultus (type locality: 121307)