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Mycetoporus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Taxonomy
Mycetoporus was named by Mannerheim (1830). It is extant. It is the type genus of Mycetoporini.

It was assigned to Staphylinidae by Scudder (1900), Wickham (1912); to Tachyporini by Hatch (1957); to Mycetoporini by Herman (2001), Bouchard et al. (2011); and to Mycetoporinae by Yamamoto (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1830Mycetoporus Mannerheim
1900Mycetoporus Scudder p. 68
1912Mycetoporus Wickham p. 12
1957Mycetoporus Hatch p. 130
2001Mycetoporus Herman p. 762
2011Mycetoporus Bouchard et al.
2021Mycetoporus Yamamoto p. 110

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyStaphylinoidea
familyStaphylinidae()
subfamilyMycetoporinae(Thomson 1859)
genusMycetoporusMannerheim 1830

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. Mycetoporus Mannerheim 1830
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†Mycetoporus demersus Scudder 1900
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Chadronian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 37.00000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (11 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.0 - 33.9USA (Colorado) M. demersus (106381 106384 113749)
Gelasian2.58 - 1.8Greenland M. sp. (160109 160159)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Pennsylvania) M. sp. (137208)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Washington) M. punctatissimus (167662)
Tarantian0.129 - 0.0117USA (Pennsylvania) M. sp. (137201 137204 137205 137206)