Insecta - Coleoptera - Coptoclavidae
Parent taxon: Adephaga according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Carpenter 1992 and Soriano et al. 2007
Sister taxa: Amarodes, Amphizoidae, Amphoxyne, Carabidae, Carabiformia, Chimaerocoleus, Cicindelidae, Colymbotethidae, Curculionites, Dytiscidae, Dytiscoidea, Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Hygrobiidae, Liadytidae, Longurius, Memptus, Noteridae, Oryctites, Parahygrobiidae, Pseudomorphinae, Trachypachidae, Triadogyrus, Triaplidae, Tritarsusidae
Subtaxa: Agrascapha Amblycephalonius Charonoscaphinae Coptoclavia Coptoclavinae Coptoclaviscinae Euroscapha Hispanoclavinae Timarchopsinae
Type: Coptoclava
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (1 collection), China (20), Mongolia (7), the Russian Federation (13), South Korea (3), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (1)
• Jurassic of China (5), Germany (9), Kazakhstan (8), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mongolia (7), the Russian Federation (19), the United Kingdom (17), United States (3: Connecticut, Massachusetts)
• Triassic to Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of Angola (1), China (1), Germany (6), Italy (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (2: North Carolina)
Total: 138 collections including 182 occurrences