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Lithanomala crassa

Insecta - Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae

Taxonomy
Proteroscarabaeus crassus was named by Ponomarenko (1990). Its type specimen is PIN 4085/12, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Leskovo (PIN collection 4085), which is in a Barremian lacustrine - small horizon in the Leskovskaya Formation of the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Lithanomala crassa by Nikolajev (1992), Krell (2000) and Nikolajev (2007).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1990Proteroscarabaeus crassus Ponomarenko p. 66 figs. Pl 6, fig 2; text-fig 61
1992Lithanomala crassa Nikolajev p. 100
2000Lithanomala crassa Krell p. 886
2007Lithanomala crassa Nikolajev p. 187 fig. 69

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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
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyScarabaeoidea
familyScarabaeidae()
subfamilyMelolonthinae()
tribeSericini()
genusLithanomala
speciescrassa()

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.

Lithanomala crassa 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: Barremian or 129.40000 to 125.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Barremian129.4 - 125.0Russian Federation (Chita) Proteroscarabaeus crassus (type locality: 151642)