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Anthribites cretaceus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Anthribidae

Taxonomy
Anthribites cretaceus was named by Zherikhin (1993). Its type specimen is PIN 3800/1209, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Khetana River, outcrop 2/19 (PIN collection 3800), which is in a Coniacian lacustrine mudstone in the Amka Formation of the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Cretanthribus cretaceus by Legalov (2009), Legalov (2010), Legalov (2012), Legalov (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1993Anthribites cretaceus Zherikhin p. 29 figs. Pl 3, fig 1; text-fig 9
2009Cretanthribus cretaceus Legalov p. 292
2010Cretanthribus cretaceus Legalov p. 93
2012Cretanthribus cretaceus Legalov p. 691
2015Cretanthribus cretaceus Legalov p. 1451

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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
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
—Phytophaga
superfamilyCurculionoidea
familyAnthribidae()
subfamilyAnthribinae
tribeTophoderiniLacordaire 1865
genusAnthribites
speciescretaceus

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.

†Anthribites cretaceus Zherikhin 1993
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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: Late/Upper Coniacian or 89.80000 to 85.70000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Coniacian89.8 - 85.7Russian Federation (Khabarovsk) Anthribites cretaceus (type locality: 123528)