Archaeorrhynchus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
Family: | Nemonychidae |
Genus: | † Archaeorrhynchus |
Type species | |
†Archaeorrhynchus tenuicornis Martynov, 1926
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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]