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Pteroporus antiquus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae

Taxonomy
Hydroporus antiquus was named by Heer (1862). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Oeningen (Bruckmann collection), which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany. It is the type species of Pteroporus.

It was recombined as Pteroporus antiquus by Nilsson (2001).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1862Hydroporus antiquus Heer p. 42 figs. Pl 2, fig 15
1864Hydroporus antiquus Heer p. 383 fig. 282
2001Pteroporus antiquus Nilsson p. 268

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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
suborderAdephaga
familyDytiscidae()
subfamilyHydroporinae()
tribeHydroporini
genusPteroporus
speciesantiquus()

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.

†Pteroporus antiquus Heer 1862
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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: Sarmatian or 12.70000 to 11.60800 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sarmatian12.7 - 11.608Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Hydroporus antiquus (type locality: 122868)