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Menatorhis elegans
Taxonomy
Balaninus elegans was named by Piton (1940). Its type specimen is MNHN R07010, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Menat (Piton collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France. It is the type species of Menatorhis.
It was recombined as Curculio elegans by Legalov (2015); it was recombined as Menatorhis elegans by Legalov et al. (2017).
It was recombined as Curculio elegans by Legalov (2015); it was recombined as Menatorhis elegans by Legalov et al. (2017).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1940 | Balaninus elegans Piton pp. 197-198 fig. 63 |
| 2015 | Curculio elegans Legalov p. 1490 |
| 2017 | Menatorhis elegans Legalov et al. p. 254 fig. 3A,C |
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†Menatorhis elegans Piton 1940
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available