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Byrrhus
Taxonomy
Byrrhus was named by Linnaeus (1767). It is extant. It is the type genus of Byrrhoidea, Byrrhidae, Byrrhinae, Byrrhini, Byrrhii.
It was assigned to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1775); to Coleoptera by Linnaeus (1767), Müller (1776) and Latreille (1796); to Necrophagi by Latreille (1802); to Byrrhidae by Scudder (1900); and to Byrrhini by Bouchard et al. (2011) and Webster (2016).
It was assigned to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1775); to Coleoptera by Linnaeus (1767), Müller (1776) and Latreille (1796); to Necrophagi by Latreille (1802); to Byrrhidae by Scudder (1900); and to Byrrhini by Bouchard et al. (2011) and Webster (2016).
Synonymy list
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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. Byrrhus Linnaeus 1767
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Byrrhus domesticus Geoffroy 1785
†Byrrhus exanimatus von Heyden and von Heyden 1866
Byrrhus eximius Le Conte 1850
†Byrrhus lucae Von Heyden 1859
†Byrrhus oeningensis Heer 1847
†Byrrhus ottawaensis Scudder 1895
Byrrhus pilula Linnaeus 1758
Byrrhus pustulatus Forster 1771
†Byrrhus romingeri Scudder 1900
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 Eocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 37.20000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma
Collections (16 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Chadronian | USA (Colorado) | B. romingeri (106384 124624) | |
| Late/Upper Eocene | USA (Colorado) | B. romingeri (122093) | |
| MP 30 | Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen) | B. lucae (127628) | |
| MP 30 | Germany | B. exanimatus (123945) | |
| Sarmatian | Germany (Baden-Württemberg) | B. oeningensis (113689 117252) | |
| Messinian | USA (Alaska) | B. sp. (123352) | |
| Gelasian | Greenland | B. sp. (160109) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | United Kingdom | B. sp. (168267) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Colorado) | B. eximius (169347) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Canada (Ontario) | B. ottawaensis (152573) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | United Kingdom (England) | B. sp. (164906) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | United Kingdom (Worcestershire) | B. sp., B. pilula, B. pustulatus (163070) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Wisconsin) | B. sp. (169406) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Washington) | B. sp. (167662) |