Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Alternative spelling: Silpha (Thanatophilus)
Full reference: W. E. Leach. 1815. Entomology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9:57-172
Parent taxon: Silphini according to J. E. King et al. 2015
See also Kiselev and Nazarov 2009, Leach 1815, Pierce 1949, Rŭžička 2015 and Webster 2016
Sister taxa: Necrophila, Silpha
Subtaxa: Thanatophilus coloradensis Thanatophilus dispar Thanatophilus lapponicus Thanatophilus sagax Thanatophilus trituberculatus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greenland (2 collections), the Russian Federation (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (11: California, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Washington)
• Miocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Oligocene of France (1)
Total: 19 collections each including a single occurrence
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