Insecta - Coleoptera - Chelonariidae
Alternative spelling: Chelonariites
Full reference: E. Blanchard. 1845. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, leurs Moeurs, leurs Métamorphoses et leur classification, ou Traité Élémentaire d'Entomologie. Tome Second 1-524
Parent taxon: Dryopoidea according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Alekseev and Bukejs 2021, Bouchard et al. 2011, Crowson 1981, Lawrence and Newton 1995 and Poinar and Háva 2021
Sister taxa: Actinocerites, Brachypodites, Callirhipidae, Cneoglossidae, Dryopidae, Elmidae, Eulichadidae, Expansifemoria, Heteroceridae, Jiuquanocoleus, Limnichidae, Lutrochidae, Mastigocoleidae, Psephenidae, Ptilodactylidae
Subtaxa: Chelonarium Eochelonarium
Type: Chelonarium
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1 collection)
• Eocene of Germany (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence