Trox oustaleti
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| Trox oustaleti Temporal range: Ypresian ~ | |
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| 1890 illustration of fossil | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Trogidae |
| Subfamily: | Troginae |
| Genus: | Trox |
| Species: | †T. oustaleti |
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| †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]