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Curculionites hylobioides

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Taxonomy
Curculionites hylobioides was named by Northrop (1928). Its type specimen is YPM IP 025704, an exoskeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Southwest of Dupree, which is in a Maastrichtian marine shale in the Fox Hills Formation of South Dakota.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
C. parvulus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1928Curculionites hylobioides Northrop p. 32 fig. 1A,B
2011Curculionites hylobioides Legalov p. 70
2012Curculionites hylobioides Legalov p. 692
2015Curculionites hylobioides Legalov p. 1497

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
—Phytophaga
superfamilyCurculionoidea
familyCurculionidae()
genusCurculionites
specieshylobioides

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.

†Curculionites hylobioides Northrop 1928
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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: Maastrichtian or 72.20000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0USA (South Dakota) Curculionites hylobioides (type locality: 151542)