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Tetraphalerites oligocenicus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Ommatidae

Taxonomy
Tetraphalerites oligocenicus was named by Crowson (1962). Its type specimen is BMNH I.8611, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Tetraphalerites.

It was recombined as Tetraphalerus oligocenicus by Tan et al. (2007).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1962Tetraphalerites oligocenicus Crowson p. 154 figs. Pl. 4, fig. 6-7
2006Tetraphalerites oligocenicus Ponomarenko p. 94 figs. Pl 10 fig 3
2007Tetraphalerus oligocenicus Tan et al. p. 241
2020Tetraphalerites oligocenicus Kirejtshuk p. 44

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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
suborderArchostemataKolbe 1908
superfamilyCupedoideaLaporte 1836
familyOmmatidaeSharp and Muir 1912
subfamilyOmmatinaeSharp and Muir 1912
genusTetraphalerites
speciesoligocenicus

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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