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Thanatophilus

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Description

Thanatophilus is a genus of carrion beetles in the family Silphidae. There are about 12 described species in Thanatophilus.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanatophilus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4448483	https://www.gbif.org/species/4448483
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	193942	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=193942

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Silphidae : Thanatophilus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
-	Aparaglossata
-	Coleopterida	Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence 2004
order	Coleoptera	Linnaeus 1758
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Staphyliniformia	Lameere 1900
superfamily	Staphylinoidea	Latreille 1802
family	Silphidae	Latreille 1807
subfamily	Silphinae	Latreille 1807
genus	Thanatophilus	Leach 1817

Scientific Name

Thanatophilus Leach, 1817

Name Published In

Leach, William E. 1817. The zoological miscellany: being descriptions of new, or interesting animals. E. Nodder & Son, London. Vol. 3: i-v; 1-151; pls. 121-150.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Thanatophilus	subgenus	belongs to Silpha	stated with evidence	Leach, 1815
Thanatophilus	genus	belongs to Silphidae	stated with evidence	Kiselev and Nazarov, 2009
Thanatophilus	genus	belongs to Silphinae	stated with evidence	Webster, 2016

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

6 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

28.1 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

W. E. Leach. 1815. Entomology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9:57-172

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanatophilus

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Thanatophilus baicalicus species	listed (PBDB)		2	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Thanatophilus capensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thanatophilus coloradensis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Thanatophilus dentiger species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thanatophilus dispar species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Thanatophilus ferrugatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thanatophilus graniger species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thanatophilus grilati species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thanatophilus lapponicus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	0.30 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Thanatophilus latericarinatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thanatophilus metallescens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thanatophilus micans species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thanatophilus minutus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thanatophilus pilosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thanatophilus porrectus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thanatophilus roborowskyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thanatophilus ruficornis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thanatophilus rugosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thanatophilus sachalinicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thanatophilus sagax species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Thanatophilus sinuatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thanatophilus terminatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thanatophilus trituberculatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thanatophilus truncatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thanatophilus uralensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Pseudopelta Bergroth, 1884	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Silphidae : *Pseudopelta*
Philas Portevin, 1903	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Silphidae : *Philas*
Silphosoma Portevin, 1903	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Silphidae : *Silphosoma*
Chalcosilpha Portevin, 1926	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Silphidae : *Chalcosilpha*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1815	Silpha (Thanatophilus) Leach p. 89
1815	Thanatophilus Leach p. 89
1949	Silpha (Thanatophilus) Pierce p. 59
2009	Thanatophilus Kiselev and Nazarov
2016	Thanatophilus Webster p. 414

References

Leach W. E. Entomology, The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9, 57-172

Pierce W. D. (1949) Fossil arthropods of California 17. The silphid burying beetles in the asphalt deposits, Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 48, 55-70

Kiselev S. V., Nazarov V. I. (2009) Late Cenozoic insects of northern Eurasia, Paleontological Journal 43 7, 732-850

Webster R. P. (2016) Checklist of the Coleoptera of New Brunswick, Canada, ZooKeys 573, 387-512

Hallan, J. (2000-current). Biology Catalog. Web compilation accessible at http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (accessed June 2012). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Gustafsson, B. (Col.) (2004) Catalogus Coleopterorum Sueciae. Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Stockholm, Excelfil hämtad från http://www.nrm.se/en/catalogus.html.se. - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

in Brewster, Edin. Encycl., ed. 1, 9, 88 an - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Peck, Stewart B. / Arnett, Ross H., Jr., and Michael C. Thomas, eds., 2001: Family 21. Silphidae Latreille, 1807. American Beetles, vol. 1: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. 268-271. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Peck, S. B., and S. E. Miller, 1993: Family: Silphidae. A Catalog of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico. x + 24. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

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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