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Nicrophorus
Taxonomy
Nicrophorus was named by Fabricius (1775). It is extant. It is the type genus of Necrophoridae.
It was corrected as Necrophorus by Latreille (1802); it was misspelled as Necrophorus by Gersdorf (1969), Bouchard et al. (2011), Rŭžička (2015) and King et al. (2015).
It was assigned to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1775); to Coleoptera by Latreille (1796); to Necrophagi by Latreille (1802); to Silphinae by Gersdorf (1969); and to Nicrophorinae by Bouchard et al. (2011), Rŭžička (2015) and King et al. (2015).
It was corrected as Necrophorus by Latreille (1802); it was misspelled as Necrophorus by Gersdorf (1969), Bouchard et al. (2011), Rŭžička (2015) and King et al. (2015).
It was assigned to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1775); to Coleoptera by Latreille (1796); to Necrophagi by Latreille (1802); to Silphinae by Gersdorf (1969); and to Nicrophorinae by Bouchard et al. (2011), Rŭžička (2015) and King et al. (2015).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1775 | Nicrophorus Fabricius p. 71 |
| 1796 | Nicrophorus Latreille p. 12 |
| 1802 | Necrophorus Latreille p. 124 |
| 1969 | Necrophorus Gersdorf p. 305 |
| 2011 | Nicrophorus Bouchard et al. |
| 2015 | Nicrophorus King et al. |
| 2015 | Nicrophorus Rŭžička p. 299 |
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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. Nicrophorus Fabricius 1775
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†Necrophorus pliozaenicus Gersdorf 1969
Nicrophorus guttula Motschulsky 1845
Nicrophorus investigator Zettersetdt 1824
Nicrophorus marginatus Fabricius 1801
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Invalid names: Nicrophorus guttulus labreae Pierce 1949 [synonym], Nicrophorus investigator latifrons Pierce 1949 [synonym], Nicrophorus mckittricki Pierce 1949 [synonym], Nicrophorus obtusiscutellum Pierce 1949 [synonym]
Nicrophorus nigrita Mannerheim 1843
Invalid names: Nicrophorus guttulus punctostriatus Pierce 1949 [synonym], Nicrophorus investigator alpha Pierce 1949 [synonym]
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 Holocene or 99.60000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.5 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.5 Ma
Collections (11 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Cenomanian | Myanmar | N. sp. (161726) | |
| Piacenzian | Germany (Niedersachsen) | Necrophorus pliozaenicus (109196) | |
| Rancholabrean | USA (California) | N. guttulus (152006 161531) N. guttulus, N. mckittricki, N. obtusiscutellum, N. investigator, N. guttulus (152007) N. mckittricki, N. guttulus (161528 161529 161530) N. mckittricki, N. investigator, N. guttulus (161535) | |
| Holocene | USA (California) | N. mckittricki (161518 161532) |