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Mesotricupes lineatus

Insecta - Coleoptera

Taxonomy
Mesotricupes lineatus was named by Hong (1982). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Sample II8P13L202, Shenjiawan, Changma, Yumen City, which is in an Aptian lacustrine mudstone in the Chijinpu Formation of China. It is the type species of Mesotricupes.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1982Mesotricupes lineatus Hong p. 113 figs. Pl 17, figs 1,2; text-fig 87
2016Mesotricupes lineatus Kirejtshuk et al. p. 149

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
genusMesotricupes
specieslineatus

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.

†Mesotricupes lineatus Hong 1982
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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: or 122.46000 to 121.40000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Aptian121.4 - 122.46China (Gansu) Mesotricupes lineatus (type locality: 155044)