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Lymexylidae (ship-timber beetle)
Taxonomy
Lymoxylonidae was named by Fleming (1821). It is extant. Its type is Lymexylon.
It was corrected as Lymexylidae by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Bouchard et al. (2011), Yamamoto (2019), Li et al. (2022), Cai et al. (2022), Batelka et al. (2025).
It was assigned to Lymexyloidea by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Bouchard et al. (2011), Yamamoto (2019), Li et al. (2022), Cai et al. (2022), Batelka et al. (2025).
It was corrected as Lymexylidae by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Bouchard et al. (2011), Yamamoto (2019), Li et al. (2022), Cai et al. (2022), Batelka et al. (2025).
It was assigned to Lymexyloidea by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Bouchard et al. (2011), Yamamoto (2019), Li et al. (2022), Cai et al. (2022), Batelka et al. (2025).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1995 | Lymexylidae Lawrence and Newton, Jr. |
| 2011 | Lymexylidae Bouchard et al. |
| 2019 | Lymexylidae Yamamoto p. 3 |
| 2022 | Lymexylidae Cai et al. |
| 2022 | Lymexylidae Li et al. p. 6 |
| 2025 | Lymexylidae Batelka 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.
Fm. Lymexylidae Fleming 1821 [ship-timber beetle]
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G. †Anancites Perkovsky 2022
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†Anancites hukawngensis Chen and Zhang 2020
Invalid names: Adamas Chen and Zhang 2020 [replaced]
Subfm. Atractocerinae Laporte 1840
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G. Atractocerus Palisot de Beauvois 1802
G. †Cretoquadratus Chen 2019
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†Cretoquadratus balticus Yamamoto 2019
†Cretoquadratus extinctus Yamamoto 2019
†Cretoquadratus sverlilo Nazarenko et al. 2022
G. †Paratractocerus Nazarenko and Perkovsky 2020
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†Paratractocerus gusakovi Nazarenko and Perkovsky 2020
G. Raractocetus Kurosawa 1985
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 Late/Upper Aptian to the top of the Langhian or 119.57000 to 13.82000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 113.2 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 113.2 Ma
Collections (8 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Aptian | Brazil (Ceará) | Cratoatractocerus grimaldii (122557) | |
| Early/Lower Cenomanian | Myanmar | Cretoquadratus engeli, Adamas hukawngensis (188400) Cretoquadratus fossilis (161726) Vetatractocerus burmiticus, Raractocetus extinctus, Raractocetus fossilis (184691) | |
| Priabonian | Ukraine | Raractocetus sverlilo (216854) | |
| Priabonian | Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) | Paratractocerus gusakovi (122591) Raractocetus balticus (124579) | |
| Burdigalian - Langhian | Dominican Republic | Atractocerus sp. (34903) |