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Oxytelus pristinus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Taxonomy
Oxytelus pristinus was named by Scudder (1876). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Chagrin Valley, which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Colorado.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1876Oxytelus pristinus Scudder p. 79
1877Oxytelus pristinus Scudder p. 759
1890Oxytelus pristinus Scudder p. 503 figs. Pl 5 figs 118-120
1900Oxytelus pristinus Scudder p. 77
2001Oxytelus pristinus Herman p. 1451
2016Oxytelus pristinus Cai et al. p. 347

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
RankNameAuthor
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyStaphylinoidea
familyStaphylinidae()
subfamilyOxytelinae()
tribeOxytelini
genusOxytelus
speciespristinus

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.

†Oxytelus pristinus Scudder 1876
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available