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Cretalbiana major

Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Taxonomy
Cretalbiana major was named by Alexeev (2013). Its type specimen is PIN 3800/1186, 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.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2013Cretalbiana major Alexeev p. 304 figs. Pl 12, fig 2; text-fig 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderElateriformiaCrowson 1960
superfamilyBuprestoidea
familyBuprestidae()
subfamilyParathyreinae
genusCretalbiana
speciesmajor

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.

Cretalbiana major Alexeev 2013
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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: Late/Upper Coniacian or 89.30000 to 85.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Coniacian89.3 - 85.8Russian Federation (Khabarovsk) Cretalbiana major (type locality: 123528)