Insecta - Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
Alternative spelling: Aphodida
Full reference: W. E. Leach. 1815. Entomology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9:57-172
Parent taxon: Scarabaeidae according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Bukejs and Alekseev 2018, Howden 2003, Krell 2000, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Nikolajev 2007, Nikolajev et al. 2014, Skelley 2021, Skelley 2021, Tamutis et al. 2017, Wappler 2003 and Webster 2016
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Aphodiini Cretorabaeus Eupariini Psammaegialiini Psammodiini Rhyparini
Type: Aphodius
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greenland (1 collection), Japan (6), the Russian Federation (28), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (26), United States (22: Colorado, Pennsylvania, Washington)
• Pliocene of Germany (1)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (2), Germany (3), Italy (1), Japan (1), Ukraine (1)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (2)
• Eocene of France (1), Germany (2), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (8: Colorado)
• Paleocene of France (1)
• Cretaceous of China (1), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 118 collections including 180 occurrences