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Otiorhynchites ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4717399	https://www.gbif.org/species/4717399
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	186840	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=186840

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Curculionidae : Otiorhynchites

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	Cucujiformia	Lameere 1938
-	Phytophaga
superfamily	Curculionoidea	Latreille 1802
family	Curculionidae	Latreille 1802
genus	Otiorhynchites	Fritsch 1882

Scientific Name

Otiorhynchites Fritsch, 1882

Name Published In

Beitr. Pal. Oesterr.-Ung., 2 (1-2)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Otiorhynchites	genus	belongs to Coleoptera	stated with evidence	Handlirsch, 1907
Otiorhynchites	genus	belongs to Coleoptera	stated without evidence	Cockerell, 1925
Otiorhynchites	genus	belongs to Curculionidae	stated without evidence	Cockerell, 1936
Otiorhynchites	genus	belongs to Curculionidae	stated with evidence	Lin, 1997
Otiorhynchites	genus	belongs to Coleoptera	stated with evidence	Legalov, 2011
Otiorhynchites	genus	belongs to Curculionidae	stated with evidence	Legalov, 2015

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

99.6 - 93.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last 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)

A. Fritsch. 1882. Fossile Arthropoden aus der Steinkohlen und Kreidformation Bohmens. Beiträge zur Paläontologie und Geologie Österreich-Ungarns und des Orients 2:1-7

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Otiorhynchites aberranis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Otiorhynchites absentivus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Otiorhynchites aterrimus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Otiorhynchites commutatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	50.3 Ma Eocene	50.3 Ma Eocene
Otiorhynchites constans ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Otiorhynchites crassus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Otiorhynchites densepunctatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Otiorhynchites florissantensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Otiorhynchites fossilis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Otiorhynchites tysoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	50.3 Ma Eocene	50.3 Ma Eocene
Otiorhynchites wilcoxianus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	41.3 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Otiorhynchites williamsi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1882	Otiorhynchites Fritsch p. 5
1907	Otiorhynchites Handlirsch p. 663
1925	Otiorhynchites Cockerell
1936	Otiorhynchites Cockerell
1956	Otiorrhynchites Haupt p. 81
1997	Otiorhynchites Lin p. 192
2011	Otiorhynchites Legalov p. 70
2015	Otiorhynchites Legalov p. 1497

References

Fritsch A. Fossile Arthropoden aus der Steinkohlen und Kreidformation Bohmens, Beiträge zur Paläontologie und Geologie Österreich-Ungarns und des Orients 2, 1-7

Handlirsch A. (1907) Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts V-VII, Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen, 641-1120

Cockerell T. D. A. (1925) Tertiary Insects from Argentina, Proceedings of the United States National Museum 68 1, 1-6

Cockerell T. D. A. (1936) The Fauna of the Sunchal (or Margas Verdes) formation, Northern Argentina, American Museum Novitates 886, 1-9

Haupt H. (1956) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der eozänen Arthopodenfauna des Geiseltales, Nova Acta Leopoldina 18 128, 1-89

Lin Q. B. (1997) Taxonomic names, in Early Tertiary insects from Peng Chau, Hong Kong, Palaeontology and Stratigraphy of Hong Kong 1, 185-199

Legalov A. A. (2011) New data on fossil beetles of the superfamily Curculionoidea (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) from Jurassic and Cretaceous deposits of the Northern Hemisphere, Euroasian Entomological Journal 10, 63-71

Legalov A. A. (2015) Fossil Mesozoic and Cenozoic weevils (Coleoptera, Obrienioidea, Curculionoidea), Paleontological Journal 49, 1442-1513

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

NZ cross ref or inferred from publ. title - 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

Beitr. Pal. Oesterr.-Ung., 2 (1-2) - 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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