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Germanocartus heydeni

Insecta - Coleoptera - Attelabidae

Taxonomy
Rhynchites heydeni was named by von Schlechtendal (1894). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Rott (Lord Dr Pohlig coll), which is in a MP 30 lacustrine - large lignite in the Rott Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Germanocartus heydeni by Legalov (2015) and Poinar and Legalov (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1894Rhynchites heydeni von Schlechtendal p. 207 figs. Pl 12, fig 5
1915Rhynchites heydeni Meunier p. 221 fig. 3
2015Germanocartus heydeni Legalov p. 1501
2015Germanocartus heydeni Poinar and Legalov p. 71

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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
Phytophaga
superfamilyCurculionoidea
familyAttelabidae()
tribeSayrevilleinae()
tribeVossicartini
genusGermanocartusLegalov 2007
speciesheydeni()

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.

Germanocartus heydeni von Schlechtendal 1894
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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 (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen) Rhynchites heydeni (138696 type locality: 142560)