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Ripiphorus meyeri

Insecta - Coleoptera - Ripiphoridae

Taxonomy
Myodites meyeri was named by von Heyden and von Heyden (1866). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Rott (Krantz Bonn coll), which is in a MP 30 lacustrine - large shale in the Rott Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Ripiphorus meyeri by Kaupp et al. (2001).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1866Myodites meyeri von Heyden and von Heyden p. 144 figs. Pl 22, fig 29
2001Ripiphorus meyeri Kaupp et al. p. 180 fig. 10

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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
superfamilyTenebrionoidea
familyRipiphoridae()
subfamilyRipiphorinae
tribeRipiphorini
genusRipiphorus
speciesmeyeri()

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.

Ripiphorus meyeri von Heyden and von Heyden 1866
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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: MP 30 or 28.40000 to 23.03000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany Myodites meyeri (type locality: 123945)