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Cretorabus capitatus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Taxonomy
Cretorabus capitatus was named by Ponomarenko (1977). Its type specimen is PIN 3064/862, 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. It is the type species of Cretorabus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1977Cretorabus capitatus Ponomarenko p. 83 figs. Pl 7, fig 7; text-fig 47

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderAdephaga
familyCarabidae()
subfamilyProtorabinae
genusCretorabus
speciescapitatus

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.

†Cretorabus capitatus Ponomarenko 1977
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available