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Curculioides scaber

Arachnida - Ricinulei - Curculioididae

Taxonomy
Geratarbus scabrum was named by Scudder (1890). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Mazon Creek, USNM Lacoe Collection, which is in a Westphalian D interdistributary bay mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois.

It was recombined as Curculioides scaber by Petrunkevitch (1913), Petrunkevitch (1949), Petrunkevitch (1953), Selden (1992) and Dunlop et al. (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Geratarbus scabrum Scudder p. 448 figs. Pl 39, fig 5
1913Curculioides scaber Petrunkevitch p. 82 figs. Pl 7, figs 36,37; text-figs 47,48
1949Curculioides scaber Petrunkevitch p. 287
1953Curculioides scaber Petrunkevitch p. 113
1992Curculioides scaber Selden p. 614 figs. 16a,b, 17
2013Curculioides scaber Dunlop et al. p. 117

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
Deuteropoda
subphylumChelicerataHeymons 1901
EuchelicerataWeygoldt and Paulus 1979
RankNameAuthor
Prosomapoda
Planaterga
Dekatriata
SclerophorataKamenz et al. 2011
classArachnidaLamarck 1801
orderRicinuleiThorell 1876
suborderPosteriorricinulei
familyCurculioididaeCockerell 1916
genusCurculioides
speciesscaber()

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.

Curculioides scaber Scudder 1890
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Grouping: solitaryc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 09:55:58
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:55:58
Source: c = class
Reference: Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Westphalian D or 309.80000 to 307.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Westphalian D309.8 - 307.5USA (Illinois) Geratarbus scabrum (type locality: 21981)