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Hygrobia cretzschmari

Insecta - Coleoptera - Hygrobiidae

Taxonomy
Pelobius cretzschmari was named by von Heyden and von Heyden (1866). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Rott (Krantz Bonn coll), which is in a MP 30 lacustrine - large shale in the Rott Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Hygrobia cretzschmari by Ponomarenko and Prokin (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1866Pelobius cretzschmari von Heyden and von Heyden p. 132 figs. Pl 22, fig 2
2015Hygrobia cretzschmari Ponomarenko and Prokin p. 1392

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderAdephaga
familyHygrobiidaeRegimbart 1878
genusHygrobia
speciescretzschmari()

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.

Hygrobia cretzschmari von Heyden and von Heyden 1866
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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: MP 30 or 28.40000 to 23.03000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany Pelobius cretzschmari (type locality: 123945)