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Carabites islandicus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Taxonomy
Carabites islandicus was named by Heer (1868). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Brjamslaeck (Brjánslækur), which is in a Serravallian pond siltstone in the Brjánslækur-Seljá Formation of Iceland.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1868Carabites islandicus Heer p. 154 figs. Pl 27, fig 21

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderAdephaga
familyCarabidae()
genusCarabites
speciesislandicus

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.

†Carabites islandicus Heer 1868
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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: Serravallian or 13.82000 to 11.62000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Serravallian13.82 - 11.62Iceland Carabites islandicus (type locality: 153094)