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Cretaceites jingxiensis

Insecta - Coleoptera

Taxonomy
Cretaceites jingxiensis was named by Wang (1998). Its type specimen is BNHM BCI 939096, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Chongqing Reservoir, Chonggezhuang village, Fangshan district, which is in an Aptian/Albian lacustrine mudstone in the Xiazhuang Formation of China. It is the type species of Cretaceites.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1998Cretaceites jingxiensis Wang p. 203 figs. Pl 1,fig 2; text-fig 3
2018Cretaceites jingxiensis Batelka et al.
2021Cretaceites jingxiensis Bouchard et al. p. 151

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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
genusCretaceites
speciesjingxiensis

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
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