Basic info Taxonomic history Classification Included Taxa
Morphology Ecology and taphonomy External Literature Search Age range and collections

Cenocephalus rhinoceroide

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Taxonomy
Mitosoma rhinoceroide was named by Schawaller (1981). Its type specimen is SMNS Do-119-K-1, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Dominican amber (SMNS coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

It was recombined as Cenocephalus rhinoceroide by Wood and Bright (1992), Legalov (2015) and Peris and Solórzano Kraemer (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1981Mitosoma rhinoceroide Schawaller p. 10 figs. 1-3, 14-21
1992Cenocephalus rhinoceroide Wood and Bright p. 1109
2015Cenocephalus rhinoceroide Legalov p. 1503
2015Cenocephalus rhinoceroide Peris and Solórzano Kraemer p. 535 figs. 5d-e

Is something missing? Join the Paleobiology Database and enter the data

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
Phytophaga
superfamilyCurculionoidea
familyCurculionidae()
subfamilyPlatypodinaeShuckard 1839
tribeTesseroceriniStrohmeyer 1914
genusCenocephalus
speciesrhinoceroide()

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.

Cenocephalus rhinoceroide Schawaller 1981
show all | hide all
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 Burdigalian to the top of the Langhian or 20.44000 to 13.82000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Cenocephalus rhinoceroide (124282 172980) Mitosoma rhinoceroide (type locality: 122474)