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Paleauletobius silenus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Attelabidae

Taxonomy
Rhynchites silenus was named by Heer (1847). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Oeningen (unspecified collection), which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany. It is the type species of Paleauletobius.

It was recombined as Paleauletobius silenus by Poinar and Legalov (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1847Rhynchites silenus Heer p. 180 figs. Pl 6, fig 8
1864Rhynchites silenus Heer p. 373
2015Paleauletobius silenus 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
RankNameAuthor
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
Phytophaga
superfamilyCurculionoidea
familyAttelabidae()
genusPaleauletobiusLegalov 2007
speciessilenus()

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
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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Sarmatian or 12.70000 to 11.60800 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sarmatian12.7 - 11.608Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Rhynchites silenus (type locality: 113695)