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Colonidae
Taxonomy
Coloninae was named by Horn (1880). It is extant. Its type is Colon.
It was reranked as the family Colonidae by Cai et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Liodidae by Crowson (1981); to Leiodidae by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Bouchard et al. (2011), Cai and Huang (2017) and Yamamoto (2018); and to Staphylinoidea by Cai et al. (2022).
It was reranked as the family Colonidae by Cai et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Liodidae by Crowson (1981); to Leiodidae by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Bouchard et al. (2011), Cai and Huang (2017) and Yamamoto (2018); and to Staphylinoidea by Cai et al. (2022).
Subtaxa
Colon (type genus), Colonellus
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1880 | Coloninae Horn |
| 1981 | Coloninae Crowson p. 695 |
| 1995 | Coloninae Lawrence and Newton, Jr. |
| 2011 | Coloninae Bouchard et al. |
| 2017 | Coloninae Cai and Huang p. 70 |
| 2018 | Coloninae Yamamoto p. 196 |
| 2022 | Colonidae Cai 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. Colonidae Horn 1880
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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 Gelasian or 99.60000 to 1.80600 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.5 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.5 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Cenomanian | Myanmar | Colon burmiticum (184691) Colonellus burmiticus (161726) | |
| Gelasian | Greenland | Colon sp. (160144) |