Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Alternative spellings: Necrophoridae, Nicrophorinae
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: Silphinae according to C. Cai 2025
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Rŭžička 2015 and Sohn and Nam 2021
Sister taxa: Aclypea, Dendroxena, Necrodini, Oiceoptoma, Phosphuga, Pliosilpha, Silphini
Subtaxa: Cretosaja Nicrophorus Palaeosilpha Paracretosaja Ptomascopus
Type: Nicrophorus
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (14: California collections)
• Pliocene of Germany (1)
• Oligocene of France (2)
• Eocene to Oligocene of France (1)
• Cretaceous of China (2), Myanmar (1), South Korea (1)
Total: 22 collections including 29 occurrences