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Abax durhamianus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Taxonomy
Abax durhamianus was named by Lesne (1926). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Castle Eden boulder clays, which is in a Calabrian/Ionian fissure fill siliciclastic in the Castle Eden Fissure-Fill Formation of the United Kingdom.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1926Abax durhamianus Lesne p. 3 fig. 1

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderAdephaga
familyCarabidae()
subfamilyHarpalinae()
tribePterostichini()
subtribePterostichina
genusAbax
speciesdurhamianus

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.

†Abax durhamianus Lesne 1926
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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: base of the Calabrian to the top of the Ionian or 1.80000 to 0.12900 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Calabrian - Ionian1.8 - 0.129United Kingdom (Durham) Pterostichini indet. (type locality: 140489)