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Platokoleos moxiensis

Insecta - Coleoptera - Trogossitidae

Taxonomy
Platokoleos moxiensis was named by Lin (1977). Its type specimen is NIGP 24362, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is ZK 28-4, Moxie, Mengla County, which is in a Paleocene/Eocene terrestrial siliciclastic in China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1977Platokoleos moxiensis Lin p. 379 figs. Pl 2, figs 2,2a

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
superfamilyCleroidea
familyTrogossitidae()
genusPlatokoleos
speciesmoxiensis

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.

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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: base of the Paleocene to the top of the Eocene or 66.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Paleocene - Eocene66.0 - 33.9China (Yunnan) Platokoleos moxiensis (type locality: 165275)