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Lithanomala oblonga

Insecta - Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae

Taxonomy
Proteroscarabaeus oblongus was named by Ponomarenko (1990). Its type specimen is PIN 4085/48, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Leskovo (PIN collection 4085), which is in a Barremian lacustrine - small horizon in the Leskovskaya Formation of the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Lithanomala.

It was recombined as Lithanomala oblonga by Nikolajev (1992), Nikolajev (1998), Krell (2000), Nikolajev (2007), Allsopp and Schoolmeesters (2024).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1990Proteroscarabaeus oblongus Ponomarenko p. 66 figs. Pl 6, fig 3; text-fig 62
1992Lithanomala oblonga Nikolajev p. 100
1998Lithanomala oblonga Nikolajev p. 519 figs. 4a-c
2000Lithanomala oblonga Krell p. 886
2007Lithanomala oblonga Nikolajev p. 186 fig. 68
2024Lithanomala oblonga Allsopp and Schoolmeesters p. 144

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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
—Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyScarabaeoidea
familyScarabaeidae()
subfamilySericinae()
tribeSericini()
genusLithanomala
speciesoblonga()

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.

†Lithanomala oblonga Ponomarenko 1990
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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: Barremian or 125.77000 to 121.40000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Barremian125.77 - 121.4Russian Federation (Chita) Proteroscarabaeus oblongus (type locality: 151642)