Trox oustaleti

Trox oustaleti
Temporal range: Ypresian
~51 Ma
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1890 illustration of fossil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Trogidae
Subfamily: Troginae
Genus: Trox
Species:
†T. oustaleti
Binomial name
†Trox oustaleti
Scudder, 1879

Trox oustaleti is an extinct species of hide beetle in the subfamily Troginae described from a fossil found in the Ypresian age Allenby Formation of British Columbia, Canada.[1] Within the genus Trox, it is placed in the core subgenus Trox.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Scudder, S. H (1879). "Appendix A. The fossil insects collected in 1877, by Mr. G.M. Dawson, in the interior of British Columbia". Geological Survey of Canada, Report of Progress for. 1877–1878: 175–185.
  2. ^ "Subgenus Trox". BioLib.
  3. ^ "Trox Fabricius, 1775". IRMNG.


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