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Geotrupes jiaoyanshanense

Insecta - Coleoptera - Geotrupidae

Taxonomy
Obitiscarabaeus jiaoyanshanense was named by Hong (1984). Its type specimen is 79114/5, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Shanwang, Linqu County, collection 79/80 (Beijing Museum), which is in a Burdigalian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Shanwang Formation of China. It is the type species of Obitiscarabaeus.

It was recombined as Geotrupes jiaoyanshanense by Zhang (1989).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1984Obitiscarabaeus jiaoyanshanense Hong p. 6 figs. Pl 1, fig 8
1989Geotrupes jiaoyanshanense Zhang p. 152 figs. Pl 41, figs 1, 2; text-fig 139

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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
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyScarabaeoidea
familyGeotrupidae()
subfamilyGeotrupinae
tribeGeotrupini
genusGeotrupes
speciesjiaoyanshanense()

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.

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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: Burdigalian or 20.44000 to 15.97000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97China (Shandong) Obitiscarabaeus jiaoyanshanense (type locality: 128550)