Insecta - Coleoptera - Cryptophagidae
Synonym: Lebanophytidae Kirejtshuk 2013
Full reference: W. Kirby. 1837. The insects. Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America: Containing Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected on the Late Northern Land Expeditions, under Command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N 4:1-325
Parent taxon: Cucujoidea according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Crowson 1981, Kirejtshuk 2013, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Robertson et al. 2015, Webster 2016, Yu et al. 2019 and Zhang 1989
Sister taxa: Agapythidae, Alloterocucus, Brachypteridae, Cavognathidae, Clavicornia, Cucujidae, Cyclaxyridae, Heteromera, Hobartiidae, Laemophloeidae, Lamingtoniidae, Meligethiellinae, Myraboliidae, Passandridae, Phalacridae, Phloeostichidae, Priasilphidae, Silvanidae, Sinisilvanidae, Tasmosalpingidae
Subtaxa: Atomariinae Cryptophaginae Hypocoprinae Lebanophytum
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (1 collection), Greenland (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (5: Washington, Wisconsin)
• Miocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Germany (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (5), Ukraine (3), United States (6: Colorado, Wyoming)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of China (1), Lebanon (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1)
Total: 37 collections including 45 occurrences