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Cistelites punctulatus

Insecta - Coleoptera

Taxonomy
Cistelites punctulatus was named by Heer (1869). It is considered to be a form taxon. It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Atanekerdluk (Whymper collection), which is in a Selandian lacustrine mudstone in the Atanikerluk Formation of Greenland.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1869Cistelites punctulatus Heer p. 484 figs. Pl 56, fig 14
1874Cistelites punctulatus Heer p. 25 figs. Pl 5, fig 12
1883Cistelites punctulatus Heer p. 145
1900Cistelites punctulatus Scudder p. 116
2008Cistelites punctulatus Kirejtshuk et al. p. 136
2018Cistelites punctulatus Bousquet et al. p. 381
2019Cistelites punctulatus Nabozhenko p. 8

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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
genusCistelites
speciespunctulatus

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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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: Selandian or 61.60000 to 59.20000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Selandian61.6 - 59.2Greenland Cistelites punctulatus (type locality: 152292 152293)