''Tetraphalerus'' is a genus of
beetle
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...
s in the family
Ommatidae
The Ommatidae are a family of beetles in the suborder Archostemata. The Ommatidae are considered the extant beetle family that has most ancestral characteristics. There are only seven extant species, confined to Australia and South America. Howev ...
, It is currently known from two extant species native to South America and several fossil species from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of Asia.
Systematics
According to Kirejtshuk, 2020.
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Tetraphalerus brevis
''Tetraphalerus'' is a genus of beetles in the family Ommatidae, It is currently known from two extant species native to South America and several fossil species from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of Asia.
Systematics
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Ponomarenko, 1964 Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan,
Oxfordian
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Tetraphalerus bruchi
''Tetraphalerus'' is a genus of beetles in the family Ommatidae, It is currently known from two extant species native to South America and several fossil species from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of Asia.
Systematics
According to Kirejtshuk, ...
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Heller, 1913, recent, Northern Argentina
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Tetraphalerus collaris
''Tetraphalerus'' is a genus of beetles in the family Ommatidae, It is currently known from two extant species native to South America and several fossil species from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of Asia.
Systematics
According to Kirejtshuk, ...
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Ponomarenko, 1997 Dzun-Bain Formation, Mongolia,
Aptian
The Aptian is an age in the geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is a subdivision of the Early or Lower Cretaceous Epoch or Series and encompasses the time from 121.4 ± 1.0 Ma to 113.0 ± 1.0 Ma (million years ag ...
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Tetraphalerus glabratus
''Tetraphalerus'' is a genus of beetles in the family Ommatidae, It is currently known from two extant species native to South America and several fossil species from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of Asia.
Systematics
According to Kirejtshuk, ...
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Ponomarenko, 1997 Togo-Khuduk Formation, Mongolia,
Bajocian
In the geologic timescale
The geologic time scale, or geological time scale, (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth. It is a system of chronological dating that uses chronostratigraphy (the process of relatin ...
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Bathonian
In the geologic timescale the Bathonian is an age and stage of the Middle Jurassic. It lasted from approximately 168.3 Ma to around 166.1 Ma (million years ago). The Bathonian Age succeeds the Bajocian Age and precedes the Callovian Age.
St ...
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Tetraphalerus largicoxa
''Tetraphalerus'' is a genus of beetles in the family Ommatidae, It is currently known from two extant species native to South America and several fossil species from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of Asia.
Systematics
According to Kirejtshuk, ...
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Lin Qibin, 1986 Guanyintan Formation, China
Toarcian
The Toarcian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, an age and stage in the Early or Lower Jurassic. It spans the time between 182.7 Ma (million years ago) and 174.1 Ma. It follows the Pliensbachian and is followed by the Aalenian.
The Toarc ...
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Aalenian
The Aalenian () is a subdivision of the Middle Jurassic Epoch/ Series of the geologic timescale that extends from about 174.1 Ma to about 170.3 Ma (million years ago). It was preceded by the Toarcian and succeeded by the Bajocian.
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Tetraphalerus mongolicus
''Tetraphalerus'' is a genus of beetles in the family Ommatidae, It is currently known from two extant species native to South America and several fossil species from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of Asia.
Systematics
According to Kirejtshuk, ...
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Ponomarenko, 1986 Gurvan-Eren Formation, Mongolia, Aptian
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Tetraphalerus notatus
''Tetraphalerus'' is a genus of beetles in the family Ommatidae, It is currently known from two extant species native to South America and several fossil species from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of Asia.
Systematics
According to Kirejtshuk, ...
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Ponomarenko, 1997 Dzun-Bain Formation, Mongolia, Aptian
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Tetraphalerus wagneri
''Tetraphalerus'' is a genus of beetles in the family Ommatidae, It is currently known from two extant species native to South America and several fossil species from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of Asia.
Systematics
According to Kirejtshuk, ...
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Waterhouse, 1901, recent, South America
Formerly assigned species
* †''Tetraphalerus antiquus''
Ponomarenko, 1964 assigned to '' Allophalerus''
* †''Tetraphalerus bontsaganensis''
Ponomarenko, 1997 assigned to ''Allophalerus''
* †''Tetraphalerus brevicapitis''
Pononarenko & Martinez-Delclos, 2000 considered indeterminate by Kirejtshuk, 2020
* †''Tetraphalerus fentaiensis''
(Ren, 1995) assigned to ''Monticupes
''Monticupes'' is an extinct genus of Ommatine beetle. The genus is characterised by "moderately oval body, subtriangular or long (subparallelsided) head with large eyes and well raised temples, pronotum carinate and with subexplanate sides, ve ...
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* †''Tetraphalerus grandis''
Ponomarenko, 1964 assigned to ''Omma
''Omma'' is a genus of beetles in the family Ommatidae. ''Omma'' is an example of a living fossil. The oldest species known, ''O. liassicum'', lived during the final stage of the Triassic (Rhaetian), over 200 million years ago, though the placeme ...
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* †''Tetraphalerus incertus''
Ponomarenko, 1969 assigned to ''Allophalerus''
* †''Tetraphalerus laetus''
Lin Qibin, 1976 assigned to ''Zygadenia''
* †''Tetraphalerus latus''
Tan et al. 2007 assigned to ''Allophalerus''
* †''Tetraphalerus lindae''
Jarzembowski et al. 2017 assigned to '' Bukhkalius''
* †''Tetraphalerus longicollis''
Ponomarenko, 1997 assigned to ''Omma''
* †''Tetraphalerus maximus''
Ponomarenko, 1968 assigned to ''Allophalerus''
* †''Tetraphalerus okhotensis''
Ponomarenko in Cromov et al., 1993 assigned to ''Allophalerus''
* †''Tetraphalerus oligocenicus''
(Crowson, 1962) assigned to ''Tetraphalerites
''Tetraphalerites'' is an extinct genus of ommatine archostematan beetle. It contains only one species, ''Tetraphalerites oligocenicus'' described by Roy Crowson in 1962 for a specimen from the Priabonian
The Priabonian is, in the ICS's ge ...
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* †''Tetraphalerus tenuipes''
Ponomarenko, 1964 assigned to ''Allophalerus''
* †''Tetraphalerus verrucosus''
Ponomarenko, 1966 assigned to ''Allophalerus''
* †''Tetraphalerus surrectus''
(Ren, 1995) assigned to ''Monticupes''
References
Ommatidae
Archostemata genera
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