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Ceratocanthinae
Taxonomy
Ceratocanthidae was named by Martinez (1968). It is extant. Its type is Ceratocanthus.
It was reranked as the subfamily Ceratocanthinae by Nikolajev et al. (2010), Bouchard et al. (2011), Poinar (2014), Ballerio and Grebennikov (2016), Lu et al. (2018), Lu et al. (2022) and Cai et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Scarabaeoidea by Lawrence and Newton (1995); and to Hybosoridae by Nikolajev et al. (2010), Bouchard et al. (2011), Poinar (2014), Ballerio and Grebennikov (2016), Lu et al. (2018), Lu et al. (2022) and Cai et al. (2022).
It was reranked as the subfamily Ceratocanthinae by Nikolajev et al. (2010), Bouchard et al. (2011), Poinar (2014), Ballerio and Grebennikov (2016), Lu et al. (2018), Lu et al. (2022) and Cai et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Scarabaeoidea by Lawrence and Newton (1995); and to Hybosoridae by Nikolajev et al. (2010), Bouchard et al. (2011), Poinar (2014), Ballerio and Grebennikov (2016), Lu et al. (2018), Lu et al. (2022) and Cai et al. (2022).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1968 | Ceratocanthidae Martinez |
| 1995 | Ceratocanthidae Lawrence and Newton, Jr. |
| 2010 | Ceratocanthinae Nikolajev et al. p. 444 |
| 2011 | Ceratocanthinae Bouchard et al. |
| 2014 | Ceratocanthinae Poinar p. 433 |
| 2016 | Ceratocanthinae Ballerio and Grebennikov p. 27 |
| 2018 | Ceratocanthinae Lu et al. |
| 2022 | Ceratocanthinae Cai et al. |
| 2022 | Ceratocanthinae Lu et al. p. 2 |
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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.
Subfm. Ceratocanthinae Martinez 1968
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G. †Palaeopycnus Lu et al. 2022
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†Palaeopycnus circus Lu et al. 2022
†Palaeopycnus fushengii Lu et al. 2022
Invalid names: Ivieolini Howden and Gill 2000 [empty]
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 Early/Lower Cenomanian to the top of the Langhian or 99.60000 to 13.82000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.5 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.5 Ma
Collections (6 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Cenomanian | Myanmar | Palaeopycnus circus (161726) Palaeopycnus fushengii (212006) | |
| Burdigalian - Langhian | Dominican Republic | Ceratocanthus huarongii (226931) Ceratocanthus sp., Ceratocanthus emarginatus, Germarostes sp. A (122472) Germarostes sp. A, Germarostes sp. B (186640) Nesopalla succini (226930) |