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Schistomerus californense

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae

Taxonomy
Schistomerus californense was named by Palmer (1957). Its type specimen is USNM 561989, an exoskeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS Cenozoic 19057, Mule Canyon, Calico Hills, which is in a Hemingfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Barstow Formation of California. It is the type species of Schistomerus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1957Schistomerus californense Palmer p. 259 figs. Pl 33, figs 1,7,10,11; text-figs 93a-k, 94a-d
2001Schistomerus californense Nilsson p. 268

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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
suborderAdephaga
familyDytiscidae()
subfamilyHydroporinae()
tribeSchistomerini
genusSchistomerusPalmer 1957
speciescalifornense

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.

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Diagnosis
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