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Antherophagus priscus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Cryptophagidae

Taxonomy
Antherophagus priscus was named by Scudder (1876). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Petrified fish cut (Richardson Coll), which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large diatomite/shale in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1876Antherophagus priscus Scudder pp. 79-80
1878Antherophagus priscus Scudder p. 762
1885Antherophagus priscus Scudder p. 799 fig. 1051
1890Antherophagus priscus Scudder p. 501 figs. Pl 7 figs 24, 35
1900Antherophagus priscus Scudder p. 85

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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
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
superfamilyCucujoidea
familyCryptophagidae
subfamilyCryptophaginae
tribeCryptophagini
genusAntherophagus
speciespriscus

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.

†Antherophagus priscus Scudder 1876
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Diagnosis
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