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Yunnanocarabus litus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Taxonomy
Yunnanocarabus litus was named by Lin (1977). Its type specimen is NIGP 24360, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is YHC 780, Xiazhuang, Xiangyun County, which is in a Bajocian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Zhanghe Formation of China. It is the type species of Yunnanocarabus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1977Yunnanocarabus litus Lin p. 378 figs. Pl 2, figs 3,3a,3b

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderAdephaga
familyCarabidae()
genusYunnanocarabus
specieslitus

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: Bajocian or 170.30000 to 168.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bajocian170.3 - 168.3China (Yunnan) Yunnanocarabus litus (type locality: 165273)