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Cardiophorus braunii

Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae

Taxonomy
Cardiophorus braunii was named by Heer (1847). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Oeningen (Carlsruhe collection), which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1847Cardiophorus braunii Heer p. 134 figs. Pl 4, fig 4
2021Cardiophorus braunii Kundrata et al. p. 15

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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
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderElateriformiaCrowson 1960
superfamilyElateroidea
familyElateridae
subfamilyCardiophorinae()
genusCardiophorusEschscholtz 1829
speciesbraunii

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.

†Cardiophorus braunii Heer 1847
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available