Omma elongatum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cupedoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Archostemata Superfamilia: Cupedoidea

Familia: Ommatidae
Subfamilia: Ommatinae
Tribus: Ommatini
Genus: Omma
Species: †Omma elongatum

Name

Omma elongatum (Brodie, 1845)

Holotype: NHM, In. 3527, nearly complete beetle.

Type locality: England, Wiltshire, Vale of Wardour; Berriasian, Lower Purbeck.

Synonymy

• Carabus elongatus Brodie, 1845: 32, 115, pl. 2, fig. 1.
• Chalepocarabus elongatus: Handlirsch, 1906: 546, pl. 45, fig. 21.
• Omma (?) elongatum: Crowson, 1962: 154, pl. 4, fig. 9. (as "elongata")

References

Primary references

• Brodie, P.B. 1845. A history of the fossil insects in the Secondary rocks of England. Accompanied by a particular account of the strata in which they occur, and of the circumstances connected with their preservation. John van Voorst, London. xviii + 130 pp., 11 pls. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.52321 . BHL. Reference page. 
• Crowson, R.A. 1962. Observations on the beetle family Cupedidae, with descriptions of two fossil forms and a key to the recent genera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (series 13) 5(51): 147–157. DOI: 10.1080/00222936208651227 . Reference page. 
• Handlirsch, A. 1906–1908. Die fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der rezenten Formen. Ein Handbuch für Paläontologen und Zoologen. Leipzig: W. Engelmann. 1430 pp. [1906: pp. 1–640, 1907: pp. 641–1120, 1908: pp. 1120–1430]. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Ponomarenko, A.G. 2006. [On the types of Mesozoic archostematan beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera, Archostemata) in the Natural History Museum, London]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 2006(1): 86–94. (in Russian). [English translation: Paleontological Journal 40(1): 90–99. DOI: 10.1134/S0031030106010102 . PDF.] Reference page.  [as Chalepocarabus elongatus]
• Kirejtshuk, A.G. 2020. Taxonomic Review of Fossil Coleopterous Families (Insecta, Coleoptera). Suborder Archostemata: Superfamilies Coleopseoidea and Cupedoidea. Geosciences 10(2): 73. DOI: 10.3390/geosciences10020073 . Reference page.  [as Omma (?) elongatum]
• Kirejtshuk, A.G., Nel, A. & Kirejtshuk, P.A. 2016. Taxonomy of the reticulate beetles of the subfamily Cupedinae (Coleoptera: Archostemata), with a review of the historical development. Invertebrate Zoology 13(2): 61–190. DOI: 10.15298/invertzool.13.2.01 . Reference page.  [as Chalepocarabus elongatus]

Links

• Lorenz, W. 2018. CarabCat: Global database of ground beetles (version Oct 2017). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 20th December 2017. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858. Reference page.  [accessed on December 24, 2018]