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Geralophus occultus ✝

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)233276https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=233276
Rankspecies (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Curculionidae : Geralophus : Geralophus occultus
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-Bilateria
-EubilateriaAx 1987
-ProtostomiaGrobben 1908
-Ecdysozoa
-Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumMandibulata
-Pancrustacea
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
-CercofilataKukalová-Peck 1987
classInsectaLinnaeus 1758
-Dicondylia
-ParanotaliaSroka et al. 2014
subclassPterygotaBrauer 1885
-NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
-Holometabola
-Aparaglossata
-ColeopteridaKukalová-Peck and Lawrence 2004
orderColeopteraLinnaeus 1758
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
-Phytophaga
superfamilyCurculionoideaLatreille 1802
familyCurculionidaeLatreille 1802
subfamilyEntiminaeSchoenherr 1823
tribeTropiphoriniMarseul 1863
genusGeralophusScudder 1893
speciesGeralophus occultus
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Geralophus occultusspeciesbelongs to Geralophusstated with evidenceScudder, 1893
Geralophus occultusspeciesbelongs to Geralophusstated without evidenceWickham, 1911
Geralophus occultusspeciesbelongs to Geralophusstated with evidenceWickham, 1912
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)1
First Recorded Appearance37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene
Last Recorded Appearance37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene
Environmentterrestrial (based on Insecta)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Arthropoda)
Taphonomychitin (based on Insecta)
Primary Reference (PBDB)S. H. Scudder. 1876. Fossil Coleoptera from the Rocky Mountain Tertiaries. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 2(1):77-87

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1876Eurhinus occultus Scudder p. 87
1893Geralophus occultus Scudder p. 74 figs. Pl 8, figs 6, 21-24
1911Geralophus occultus Wickham p. 65
1912Geralophus occultus Wickham p. 45
2011Geralophus occultus Yunakov and Kirejtshuk p. 93
2015Geralophus occultus Legalov p. 1492

References

Scudder S. H. Fossil Coleoptera from the Rocky Mountain Tertiaries, Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 2 1, 77-87
Scudder S. H. Tertiary Rhynchophorous Coleoptera of the United States, Monographs of the United States Geological Survey 21, 1-206
Wickham H. F. (1911) Fossil Coleoptera from Florissant, with descriptions of several new species, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 30, 53-69
Wickham H. F. (1912) On some fossil rhynchophorous Coleoptera from Florissant, Colorado, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 31 4, 41-55
Yunakov N. N., Kirejtshuk A. G. (2011) New genus and species of broad-nosed weevils from Baltic amber and notes on fossils of the subfamily Entiminae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae), ZooKeys 160, 73-96
Legalov A. A. (2015) Fossil Mesozoic and Cenozoic weevils (Coleoptera, Obrienioidea, Curculionoidea), Paleontological Journal 49, 1442-1513
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
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