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Schistomerus californense

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae

Taxonomy
Schistomerus californense was named by Palmer (1957). Its type specimen is USNM 561989, an exoskeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS Cenozoic 19057, Mule Canyon, Calico Hills, which is in a Hemingfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Barstow Formation of California. It is the type species of Schistomerus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1957Schistomerus californense Palmer p. 259 figs. Pl 33, figs 1,7,10,11; text-figs 93a-k, 94a-d
2001Schistomerus californense Nilsson p. 268

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderAdephaga
familyDytiscidae()
subfamilyHydroporinae()
tribeSchistomerini
genusSchistomerusPalmer 1957
speciescalifornense

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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Hemingfordian or 18.50000 to 16.30000 Ma

Collections (21 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Hemingfordian18.5 - 16.3USA (California) Schistomerus californense (106431 type locality: 123022 123023 123025 123026 123027 123028 123029 123030 123031 123032 123033 123034 123035 123036 123037 123039 123040 123041 123042 123043)