Insecta - Coleoptera - Triaplidae
Invalid subtaxa: Catiniidae Ponomarenko 1968 [replaced name], Coelocatiniidae Ponomarenko 1968 [replaced name]
Full reference: A. G. Ponomarenko. 1977. Suborder Adephaga, Polyphaga Incertae Sedis, Infraorder Staphyliniformia, in Mezozoiskie zhestkokryiye. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 161:17-119
Parent taxon: Adephaga according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Carpenter 1992, Kirejtshuk and Prokin 2018, Ponomarenko and Prokin 2015 and Tan and Ren 2007
Sister taxa: Amarodes, Amphizoidae, Amphoxyne, Carabidae, Carabiformia, Chimaerocoleus, Cicindelidae, Colymbotethidae, Coptoclavidae, Curculionites, Dytiscidae, Dytiscoidea, Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Hygrobiidae, Liadytidae, Longurius, Memptus, Noteridae, Oryctites, Parahygrobiidae, Pseudomorphinae, Trachypachidae, Triadogyrus, Tritarsusidae
Subtaxa: Avocatinus Catinius Catinoides Clypeus Macrocatinius Tomiaplus Triaplus Triassocatinius Tunguskagyrus
Type: Triaplus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (1 collection)
• Jurassic of China (1), Kazakhstan (3)
• Triassic of Kyrgyzstan (8), the Russian Federation (1)
• Permian of the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 16 collections including 24 occurrences