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Aphodius shoshonis

Insecta - Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae

Taxonomy
Aphodius shoshonis was named by Wickham (1912). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Florissant, Station 17, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1912Aphodius shoshonis Wickham p. 23 figs. Pl 6, fig 3
1914Aphodius shoshonis Wickham p. 455

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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
familyScarabaeidae()
subfamilyAphodiinae()
tribeAphodiini
subtribeAphodiina
genusAphodius
speciesshoshonis

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.

†Aphodius shoshonis Wickham 1912
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available