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Biphyllidae (false skin beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Biphyllidae

Taxonomy
Biphyllidae was named by Leconte (1861). It is extant.

It was assigned to Clavicornia by Crowson (1981); to Cucujoidea by Lawrence and Newton (1995); and to Cleroidea by Robertson et al. (2015), Gimmel et al. (2019) and Cai et al. (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1861Biphyllidae Leconte
1981Biphyllidae Crowson p. 697
1995Biphyllidae Lawrence and Newton, Jr.
2015Biphyllidae Robertson et al. p. 769
2019Biphyllidae Gimmel et al.
2022Biphyllidae Cai et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
superfamilyCleroidea
familyBiphyllidaeLeconte 1861
familyBiphyllidaeLeconte 1861

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. Biphyllidae Leconte 1861 [false skin beetle]
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G. Diplocoelus Guerin-Meneville 1844
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Diplocoelus probiphyllus Vitali 2010
G. †Paleobiphyllus Makarov and Perkovsky 2019
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Paleobiphyllus ponomarenkoi Makarov and Perkovsky 2019
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Santonian to the top of the Priabonian or 85.80000 to 33.90000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 83.5 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Santonian85.8 - 83.5Russian Federation Paleobiphyllus ponomarenkoi (35056)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Diplocoelus probiphyllus (138000)