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Otiorhynchites wilcoxianus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Taxonomy
Otiorhynchites wilcoxianus was named by Wickham (1929). Its type specimen is USNM 80472, an elytra, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Texarkana Pipe Company pits, Miller County, which is in a Bartonian pond claystone in the Cockfield Formation of Arkansas.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1929Otiorhynchites wilcoxianus Wickham p. 149 fig. 1,2
2015Otiorhynchites wilcoxianus Legalov p. 1497

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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
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
—Phytophaga
superfamilyCurculionoidea
familyCurculionidae()
genusOtiorhynchites
specieswilcoxianus

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.

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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: Bartonian or 41.30000 to 38.00000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0USA (Tennessee) Otiorhynchites wilcoxianus (151874)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0USA (Arkansas) Otiorhynchites wilcoxianus (type locality: 151875)