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Trogosita insignis

Insecta - Coleoptera - Trogossitidae

Taxonomy
Trogosita insignis was named by Heer (1868). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Upper Atanekerdluk, which is in a Selandian lacustrine mudstone in the Atanikerluk Formation of Greenland.

It was recombined as Tenebroides insignis by Schmied et al. (2009) and Kolibáč (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1868Trogosita insignis Heer p. 129 figs. Pl 50, fig 12
1883Trogosita insignis Heer p. 144
1900Trogosita insignis Scudder p. 89
1907Trogosita insignis Handlirsch p. 768
2009Tenebroides insignis Schmied et al. p. 23
2013Tenebroides insignis Kolibáč p. 83

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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
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
superfamilyCleroidea
familyTrogossitidae()
subfamilyTrogossitinae
genusTrogosita
speciesinsignis

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.

Trogosita insignis Heer 1868
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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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Selandian or 61.60000 to 59.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Selandian61.6 - 59.2Greenland Trogosita insignis (152291)