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Avitortor primitivus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Trogidae

Taxonomy
Avitortor primitivus was named by Ponomarenko (1977). Its type specimen is PIN 3064/856, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Baissa (PIN collection 3064), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large marl in the Zaza Formation of the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1977Avitortor primitivus Ponomarenko p. 42 figs. Pl 3, fig 4; text-fig 17
1992Avitortor primitivus Nikolajev p. 101
2007Avitortor primitivus Nikolajev p. 112 fig. 33

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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
superfamilyScarabaeoidea
familyTrogidaeMacLeay 1819
subfamilyTroginaeMacLeay 1819
tribeAvitortorini()
genusAvitortor
speciesprimitivus

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.

†Avitortor primitivus Ponomarenko 1977
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Diagnosis
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