Family Agyrtidae Thomson 1859 (primitive carrion beetle)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Agyrtidae
Parent taxon: Staphylinoidea according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011 and Lawrence and Newton 1995
Sister taxa: Colonidae, Dasyceridae, Empelidae, Hydraenidae, Jacobsoniidae, Leiodidae, Ptiliidae, Staphylinidae
Subtaxa: Agyrtinae Eosilphites Mesecanus Necrophilinae Ponomarenkia Prosilpha Pterolomatinae Sinosilphia
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greenland (4 collections)
• Eocene of Germany (3), the Russian Federation (1)
• Cretaceous of China (2), the Russian Federation (2)
• Jurassic of China (1), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 15 collections including 16 occurrences