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Rhagonycha (Rhagonycha) carolynae (soldier beetle)
Taxonomy
Rhagonycha (Rhagonycha) carolynae was named by Fanti and Walker (2019). Its type specimen is LACMIP 2533.3446, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Rott (Statz Collection), which is in a Chattian lacustrine - small shale in the Rott Formation of Germany.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2019 | Rhagonycha (Rhagonycha) carolynae Fanti and Walker p. 493 figs. 9-10 |
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†Rhagonycha (Rhagonycha) carolynae Fanti and Walker 2019 [soldier beetle]
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| F. Fanti and L. J. Walker 2019 | This is the first Rhagonycha described from the Oligocene and Rott. Previously described fossil Rhagonycha include: four species from the Baltic amber (Middle Eocene), one from Florissant (latest Eocene), two from Oeningen (Miocene) (of which a paralectotype is cited also from Radoboj, Croatia), and one from Lac Chambon, France (Pliocene) (Fanti, 2017; Fanti & Damgaard, 2018; Fanti & Pankowski, 2018). The new species differs from others by its larger dimensions, with only Rhagonycha germari (Heer, 1847) from Oeningen, vaguely similar in size (8.50–9 mm) having longer elytra (Heer, 1847; Fanti, 2017). |
Measurements
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||