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Amphicyrta

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4746658	https://www.gbif.org/species/4746658
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	282704	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=282704

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Byrrhidae : Amphicyrta

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	Elateriformia	Crowson 1960
superfamily	Byrrhoidea	Latreille 1804
family	Byrrhidae	Latreille 1804
genus	Amphicyrta	Eschscholtz 1843

Scientific Name

Amphicyrta Eschscholtz, 1843

Name Published In

in Germar, Zeitschr. Entom., 4

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Amphicyrta	genus	belongs to Byrrhidae	stated with evidence	Scudder, 1900

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

S. H. Scudder. 1900. Adephagous and clavicorn Coleoptera from the Tertiary deposits at Florissant, Colorado with descriptions of a few other forms and a systematic list of the non-rhynchophorus Tertiary Coleoptera of North America. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey 40:1-148

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Amphicyrta elongata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphicyrta gentilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphicyrta inhaesa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Amphicyrta nevadensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphicyrta oblonga species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphicyrta parvuliceps species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphicyrta ventricosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Amphicyrta Dejean, 1834	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Byrrhidae : *Amphicyrta*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1843	Amphicyrta Erichson
1900	Amphicyrta Scudder p. 91

References

Scudder S. H. Adephagous and clavicorn Coleoptera from the Tertiary deposits at Florissant, Colorado with descriptions of a few other forms and a systematic list of the non-rhynchophorus Tertiary Coleoptera of North America, Monographs of the United States Geological Survey 40, 1-148

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

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

in Germar, Zeitschr. Entom., 4 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus (authority adjusted) (suppl. record created) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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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