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Megarhynchaenus schalowae

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Taxonomy
Megarhynchaenus schalowae was named by Kohring (1989). Its type specimen is Institut fur Geologie, Bucharest E1, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is 2 km north of Chiuzbaia, which is in a Pannonian lacustrine - large diatomite in Romania.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1989Megarhynchaenus schalowae Kohring p. 30 figs. Pl 1, figs a,b
1999Megarhynchaenus schalowae Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal p. 46
2015Megarhynchaenus schalowae Legalov p. 1494

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
—Phytophaga
superfamilyCurculionoidea
familyCurculionidae()
subfamilyEntiminaeSchoenherr 1823
genusMegarhynchaenus
speciesschalowae

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.

†Megarhynchaenus schalowae Kohring 1989
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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: Pannonian or 11.63000 to 7.24600 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Pannonian11.63 - 7.246Romania Megarhynchaenus schalowae (type locality: 160008)