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Glaphoptera anglica

Insecta - Coleoptera

Taxonomy
Glaphoptera anglica was named by Handlirsch (1906). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Sevenhampton, Gloucestershire (Brodie Coll.), which is in a Bathonian marine limestone in the Great Oolite Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Glaphoptera.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1906Glaphoptera anglica Handlirsch p. 557 figs. Pl XlV fig 47

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
genusGlaphoptera
speciesanglica

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.

†Glaphoptera anglica Handlirsch 1906
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Bathonian or 168.30000 to 166.10000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bathonian168.3 - 166.1United Kingdom (Gloucestershire) Glaphoptera anglica (type locality: 138965)