Biology:Tetraphalerites

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Short description: Extinct genus of beetles

Tetraphalerites
Temporal range: Priabonian
Scientific classification edit
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Crowson, 1962
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Binomial name
Tetraphalerites oligocenicus
Crowson, 1962

Tetraphalerites is an extinct genus of ommatid archostematan beetle. It contains only one species, Tetraphalerites oligocenicus described by Roy Crowson in 1962 for a specimen from the Priabonian (late Eocene) aged Insect Limestone, Bembridge Marls of the Isle of Wight, UK.[1]

References

  1. R. A. Crowson. 1962. Observations on the beetle family Cupedidae, with descriptions of two new fossil forms and a key to the recent genera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 13 5:147-157

Wikidata ☰ Q21365472 entry