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Aposphinctus sibiricus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae

Taxonomy
Aposphinctus sibiricus was named by Ponomarenko (1990). Its type specimen is PIN 3924/35, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Shiviya locality (PIN collection 3924), which is in a Hauterivian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Daya Formation of the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1990Aposphinctus sibiricus Ponomarenko p. 49 figs. Pl 4, fig 8; text-fig 44

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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
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyHydrophiloidea
familyHydrophilidae
genusAposphinctus
speciessibiricus

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.

Aposphinctus sibiricus Ponomarenko 1990
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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: base of the Tithonian to the top of the Hauterivian or 152.10000 to 129.40000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Tithonian152.1 - 145.0Russian Federation (Chita) Aposphinctus sibiricus (125407 152172)
Hauterivian132.9 - 129.4Russian Federation (Chita) Aposphinctus sibiricus (type locality: 125409)