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Scaphinotus minor

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Taxonomy
Cychrus minor was named by Horn (1876). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Port Kennedy Cave, which is in an Irvingtonian cave horizon in Pennsylvania.

It was recombined as Scaphinotus minor by Roeschke (1907).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1876Cychrus minor Horn p. 243
1890Cychrus minor Scudder p. 537 figs. Pl 1 fig 2
1900Cychrus minor Scudder p. 13
1907Scaphinotus minor Roeschke p. 270

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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
familyCarabidae()
subfamilyCarabinae
tribeCychriniPerty 1830
genusScaphinotusDejean 1826
speciesminor()

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.

†Scaphinotus minor Horn 1876
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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: Irvingtonian or 1.80000 to 0.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Pennsylvania) Cychrus minor (type locality: 20479)