Basic info Taxonomic history Classification Included Taxa
Morphology Ecology and taphonomy External Literature Search Age range and collections

Cretocateres mongolicus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Trogossitidae

Taxonomy
Cretocateres mongolicus was named by Ponomarenko (1986). Its type specimen is PIN 3152/4307, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Myangad locality, Section 221/17, which is in an Aptian lacustrine mudstone in the Gurvan-Eren Formation of Mongolia. It is the type species of Cretocateres.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1986Cretocateres mongolicus Ponomarenko p. 101 figs. 76; Pl IX fig 4
2013Cretocateres mongolicus Kolibáč p. 57

Is something missing? Join the Paleobiology Database and enter the data

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
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
superfamilyCleroidea
familyTrogossitidae()
subfamilyTrogossitinae
tribeTrogossitini
genusCretocateres
speciesmongolicus

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.

†Cretocateres mongolicus Ponomarenko 1986
show all | hide all
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available