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Berosus
Taxonomy
Berosus was named by Leach (1817). It is extant.
It was assigned to Hydrophilidae by Scudder (1900); and to Berosini by Fikáček et al. (2010) and Bouchard et al. (2011).
It was assigned to Hydrophilidae by Scudder (1900); and to Berosini by Fikáček et al. (2010) and Bouchard et al. (2011).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1817 | Berosus Leach pp. 92, 93 |
| 1900 | Berosus Scudder p. 41 |
| 2010 | Berosus Fikáček et al. |
| 2011 | Berosus Bouchard et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Berosus Leach 1817
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Subg. Berosus (Berosus) Leach 1817
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†Berosus (Berosus) morticinus von Heyden and von Heyden 1866
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Invalid names: Berosus capitatus Statz 1939 [synonym]
†Berosus barclayi Ponomarenko and Soriano 2019
Berosus luridus Linnaeus 1761
†Berosus sexstriatus Scudder 1878
Berosus signaticollis Charpentier 1825
Berosus spinosus Steven 1808
†Berosus tenuis Scudder 1878
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Bridgerian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 50.30000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 46.2 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 46.2 Ma
Collections (8 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Bridgerian | USA (Wyoming) | B. tenuis, B. sexstriatus (121322) | |
| Priabonian | United Kingdom (Isle of Wight) | B. barclayi (156628) | |
| Priabonian | United Kingdom (England) | B. barclayi (21976 123960) B. sp., B. barclayi (123959) | |
| MP 30 | Germany | Philydrus morticinus (123945) | |
| Chattian | Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) | B. capitatus, B. morticinus (122010) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Russian Federation (Astrakhan) | B. luridus, B. spinosus, B. signaticollis (125794) |