Tetraphalerites oligocenicus

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: †Brochocoleinae
Genus: †Tetraphalerites
Species: †Tetraphalerites oligocenicus

Name

Tetraphalerites oligocenicus Crowson, 1962

Holotype: NHM, In. 8611, Brodie collection, body without head, pronotum and legs.

Type locality: England, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Gurnet Bay; Upper Eocene or Lower Oligocene, Bouldnor Formation, Bembridge Marl Member.

Synonymy

• Tetraphalerites oligocenicus Crowson, 1962: 154
• Tetraphalerus oligocenicus: Tan, Ren & Shih, 2007: 241 (implied by synonymy of Tetraphalerites with Tetraphalerus)

References

Primary references

• 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. 
• Tan, J., Ren, D. & Shih, C. 2007. New beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Archostemata) from the Late Mesozoic of North China. Annales Zoologici 57(2): 231–247. ResearchGate . 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.