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Cavicarabus lucensus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Taxonomy
Cavicarabus lucensus was named by Hong (1985). Its type specimen is Beijing Museum of Natural History H16, an elytra, and it is an impression. Its type locality is TJ201, Layer 5, Jinshandian, Daye County, which is in a Toarcian terrestrial shale in the Wuchang Formation of China. It is the type species of Cavicarabus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1985Cavicarabus lucensus Hong p. 185 figs. Pl 2, figs 7,8

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderAdephaga
familyCarabidae()
genusCavicarabus
specieslucensus

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.

†Cavicarabus lucensus Hong 1985
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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: Toarcian or 184.20000 to 174.70000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Toarcian184.2 - 174.7China (Hubei) Cavicarabus lucensus (type locality: 156562)