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Tetracoleus ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	8441098	https://www.gbif.org/species/8441098
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	183801	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=183801

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Asiocoleidae : Tetracoleus

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	Myxophaga	Crowson 1955
superfamily	Asiocoleoidea	Rodendorf 1961
family	Asiocoleidae	Rohdendorf 1961
genus	Tetracoleus	Ponomarenko 2008

Scientific Name

Tetracoleus Ponomarenko, 2008

Name Published In

Article title: New Triassic beetles from Northern European Russia.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Tetracoleus	genus	belongs to Tricoleidae	stated with evidence	Ponomarenko, 2008
Tetracoleus	genus	belongs to Asiocoleidae	stated with evidence	Ponomarenko, 2011

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

265 - 260 Ma
Permian

Last Recorded Appearance

251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. G. Ponomarenko. 2008. New Triassic Beetles (Coleoptera) from Northern European Russia. Paleontological Journal 42(6):600-606

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Tetracoleus aristovi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Tetracoleus golubevi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Tetracoleus meyeni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Tetracoleus minimus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Tetracoleus orenburgensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	265 Ma Permian	265 Ma Permian
Tetracoleus sennikovi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Tetracoleus tricoleoides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Tetracoleus tshalyshevi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Tetracoleus vasilenkoi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
2008	Tetracoleus Ponomarenko
2011	Tetracoleus Ponomarenko p. 418
2015	Tetracoleus Ponomarenko p. 44
2018	Tetracoleus Ponomarenko p. 625

References

Ponomarenko A. G. (2008) New Triassic Beetles (Coleoptera) from Northern European Russia, Paleontological Journal 42 6, 600-606

Ponomarenko A. G. (2011) New beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Vyazniki Locality, terminal Permian of European Russia, Paleontological Journal 45 4, 414-422

Ponomarenko A. G. (2015) New beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) from the Nedubrovo locality, terminal Permian or basal Triassic of European Russia, Paleontological Journal 49, 39-50

Ponomarenko A. G. (2018) New beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) from the upper Vyatkian Aristovo locality, European Russia, Paleontological Journal 52, 620-630

inferred from original work (title) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

refer original publication - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

www.organismnames.com (Jul 2012) / web search - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 6. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Article title: New Triassic beetles from Northern European Russia. - 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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