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Laodiscis melanis

Insecta - Coleoptera

Taxonomy
Laodiscis melanis was named by Lin (1977). Its type specimen is NIGP 24361, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is YHS 304, Shangyong, Mengla County, which is in a Paleocene/Eocene terrestrial siliciclastic in China. It is the type species of Laodiscis.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1977Laodiscis melanis Lin p. 379 figs. Pl 2, figs 5,5a,5b

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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
genusLaodiscis
speciesmelanis

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.

†Laodiscis melanis Lin 1977
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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: base of the Paleocene to the top of the Eocene or 66.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Paleocene - Eocene66.0 - 33.9China (Yunnan) Laodiscis melanis (type locality: 165271 165274)