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Tentyridium peleus

Insecta - Coleoptera

Taxonomy
Tentyridium peleus was named by Westwood (1854). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Swanage/Purbeck (DORCM/BMNH) [C. Willcox Collection], which is in a Berriasian fluvial-lacustrine limestone in the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Tentyridium.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1854Tentyridium peleus Westwood pp. 386, 393 figs. Pl 14 fig 21
1906Tentyridium paleus Handlirsch p. 561 figs. Pl XLV fig 66
2016Tentyridium peleus Kirejtshuk et al. p. 150

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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
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderArchostemataKolbe 1908
genusTentyridium
speciespeleus

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.

†Tentyridium peleus Westwood 1854
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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: Berriasian or 143.10000 to 137.05000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Berriasian143.1 - 137.05United Kingdom (England) Tentyridium peleus (type locality: 127481)