Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Alternative spelling: Oxytelidae
Full reference: J. Fleming. 1821. Insecta. Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 5:41-56
Parent taxon: Staphylinidae according to J. Jenkins Shaw et al. 2024
See also Bernhauer and Schubert 1910, Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2022, Chen et al. 2023, Engel and Chatzimanolis 2009, Grebennikov and Newton 2012, Hatch 1957, Herman 2001, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Lu et al. 2017, Makranczy et al. 2018, Ryvkin 1990 and Zhang 1989
Sister taxa: Miosilpha, Silphinae, Heterosilpha, Nicrophorinae
Subtaxa: Blediini Coprophilini Deleasterini Euphaniini Megalymma Mesoxytelus Morda Oxytelini Piestini Syntomiini Thinobiini Turgaphloeus
Type: Oxytelus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (3: British Columbia, Ontario collections), Greenland (6), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (27), United States (21: Colorado, Pennsylvania, Washington, Wisconsin)
• Pliocene of Germany (1)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1), Germany (1), United States (2: California)
• Oligocene of France (2), Germany (1)
• Eocene of Germany (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (7: Colorado, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of China (2), Mongolia (4), Myanmar (2), the Russian Federation (3)
• Jurassic of Kazakhstan (3), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 91 collections including 162 occurrences