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Extinct genus of beetles

Tetraphalerites
Temporal range: Priabonian Preκž’ κž’ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Ommatidae
Genus: †Tetraphalerites
Crowson, 1962
Species: T. oligocenicus
Binomial name
Tetraphalerites oligocenicus
Crowson, 1962

Tetraphalerites is an extinct genus of ommatid archostematan beetle. It contains only one species, Tetraphalerites oligocenicus described by Roy Crowson in 1962 for a specimen from the Priabonian (late Eocene) aged Insect Limestone, Bembridge Marls of the Isle of Wight, UK.

References

  1. R. A. Crowson. 1962. Observations on the beetle family Cupedidae, with descriptions of two new fossil forms and a key to the recent genera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 13 5:147-157
Taxon identifiers
Tetraphalerites


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