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Anakitium storozhenkoi

Insecta - Coleoptera - Asiocoleidae

Taxonomy
Anakitium storozhenkoi was named by Arakelyan and Yan (2025). Its type specimen is PIN 5381/478, an exoskeleton (elytron), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Anakit-3 (PIN collection 5381), which is in a Changhsingian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Chichikan Formation of the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Anakitium.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2025Anakitium storozhenkoi Arakelyan and Yan p. 42 figs. 1-3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
familyAsiocoleidae
genusAnakitium
speciesstorozhenkoi

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.

†Anakitium storozhenkoi Arakelyan and Yan 2025
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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 14:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Changhsingian or 254.14000 to 251.90200 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Changhsingian254.14 - 251.902Russian Federation (Evenki Autonomous Okrug) Anakitium storozhenkoi (type locality: 118027)