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Elaphrus pliocenicus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Taxonomy
Elaphrus pliocenicus was named by Piton (1939). Its type specimen is Col Piton 1008, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Lac Chambon (Piton coll), which is in a Gelasian crater lake diatomite/volcaniclastic in France.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1939Elaphrus pliocenicus Piton p. 103 fig. 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderAdephaga
familyCarabidae()
subfamilyElaphrinae()
genusElaphrus
speciespliocenicus

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.

†Elaphrus pliocenicus Piton 1939
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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: Gelasian or 2.58800 to 1.80600 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Gelasian2.588 - 1.806France Elaphrus pliocenicus (type locality: 113996)