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Miostenosis lacordairei

Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae

Taxonomy
Miostenosis lacordairei was named by Wickham (1913). Its type specimen is USNM 59663, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Florissant (USNM Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado. It is the type species of Miostenosis.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1913Miostenosis lacordairei Wickham p. 297 figs. Pl 26, fig 1
2008Miostenosis lacordairei Kirejtshuk et al. p. 135
2018Miostenosis lacordairei Bousquet et al. p. 381
2019Miostenosis lacordairei Nabozhenko p. 4
2021Miostenosis lacordairei Bouchard et al. p. 255

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
RankNameAuthor
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
superfamilyTenebrionoidea
familyTenebrionidae()
subfamilyPimeliinae()
tribeStenosiniSchaum 1859
genusMiostenosis
specieslacordairei

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.

Miostenosis lacordairei Wickham 1913
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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: Chadronian or 37.20000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Miostenosis lacordairei (type locality: 124624)