Archaeorrhynchus
Extinct genus of beetles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with the bird genus Archaeorhynchus.
Archaeorrhynchus is an extinct genus of weevil from the family Nemonychidae. It is known from the Callovian-Oxfordian Karabastau Formation in Kazakhstan. The type species, Archaeorrhynchus tenuicornis, was named in 1926.[1] Two other species, A. tenuicornis and A. carpenteri, were described from the same locality.[2][3]
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Archaeorrhynchus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Nemonychidae |
Genus: | †Archaeorrhynchus |
Type species | |
†Archaeorrhynchus tenuicornis Martynov, 1926 | |
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