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Geraeus vulcanicus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Taxonomy
Dorytomus vulcanicus was named by Wickham (1912). It is an impression. Its type locality is Florissant, Station 17, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

It was recombined as Centrinus vulcanicus by Wickham (1913) and Legalov (2015); it was recombined as Geraeus vulcanicus by Legalov (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1912Dorytomus vulcanicus Wickham p. 48 figs. Pl. IV, Fig. 1
1913Centrinus vulcanicus Wickham p. 25 figs. Pl 7, figs 4,5
2015Centrinus vulcanicus Legalov p. 1489
2018Geraeus vulcanicus Legalov p. 423

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
RankNameAuthor
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
—Phytophaga
superfamilyCurculionoidea
familyCurculionidae()
subfamilyConoderinaeSchoenherr 1833
—BariditaeSchoenherr 1836
tribeApostasimeriniSchoenherr 1844
genusGeraeusPascoe 1889
speciesvulcanicus()

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.

†Geraeus vulcanicus Wickham 1912
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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: Chadronian or 37.20000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Centrinus vulcanicus (113749) Dorytomus vulvanicus (type locality: 106382)