Biology:Beckius
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Beckius is an extinct genus of marine whitefish known from the Early Oligocene[1] of California. It contains a single species, B. plicatus, known only from a single fossilized scale from the Tumey Formation, a lens of the Kreyenhagen Shale. The scale was found to resemble those of Coregonus, although significantly different in many ways, leading to its classification as a new genus of Coregoninae.[2][3][4]
The genus name was later reused in 1992 for a scarab beetle from New Guinea, until it was discovered to be preoccupied; the beetle was thus renamed Debeckius.[5]
References
- ↑ E. R. Atwill (2) (1935). "Oligocene Tumey Formation of California" (in en). AAPG Bulletin 19. doi:10.1306/3D932D52-16B1-11D7-8645000102C1865D. ISSN 0149-1423. http://search.datapages.com/data/doi/10.1306/3D932D52-16B1-11D7-8645000102C1865D.
- ↑ "PBDB Taxon". https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=364701&is_real_user=1.
- ↑ David, Lorre R. (1946). "Some Typical Upper Eogene Fish Scales from California". Contributions to Paleontology IV. https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/v03cm-86s21.
- ↑ "Mineralienatlas - Fossilienatlas" (in de). https://www.mineralienatlas.de/lexikon/index.php/FossilData?lang=de&fossil=Beckius.
- ↑ Allsopp, Peter G (2022-07-01). "Replacement names for Beckius Dechambre, 1992 and Syrictes Prell, 1936, and validation of Neoryctes Arrow, 1908 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)". Zootaxa 5165 (2): 294–300. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5165.2.9. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 36095466.
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