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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4740808	https://www.gbif.org/species/4740808
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	242124	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=242124

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Tenebrionidae : Cistelites

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Cistelites

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
genus	Cistelites	Heer 1865

Scientific Name

Cistelites Heer, 1865

Name Published In

Die Urwelt der Schweiz, 89, pl. 8, fig

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Cistelites	genus	belongs to Cisteleniae	stated with evidence	Scudder, 1900
Cistelites	genus	belongs to Coleoptera	stated with evidence	Handlirsch, 1906
Cistelites	genus	belongs to Alleculinae	stated with evidence	Kirejtshuk et al., 2008
Cistelites	genus	belongs to Coleoptera	stated with evidence	Batelka et al., 2018

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

201 - 197 Ma
Early Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

12.7 - 11.6 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

O. Heer. 1865. Die Urwelt der Schweiz

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cistelites insignis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Cistelites longipes ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Cistelites minor ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	61.6 Ma Paleocene	61.6 Ma Paleocene
Cistelites punctulatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	61.6 Ma Paleocene	61.6 Ma Paleocene
Cistelites sachalinensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	86.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	86.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Cistelites spectabilis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	12.7 Ma Miocene	12.7 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1865	Cistelites Heer p. 89
1900	Cistelites Scudder p. 116
1906	Cistelites Handlirsch p. 438
2008	Cistelites Kirejtshuk et al.
2018	Cistelites Batelka et al.
2018	Cistelites Bousquet et al. p. 381
2019	Cistelites Nabozhenko p. 8

References

Heer O. , Die Urwelt der Schweiz, 1-622

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

Handlirsch A. (1906) Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV, Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen, 1-640

Kirejtshuk A. G., Merkl O., et al (2008) A new species of the genus Pentaphyllus Dejean, 1821 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Diaperinae) from the Baltic amber and checklist of the fossil Tenebrionidae, Zoosystematica Rossica 17, 131-137

Batelka J., Engel M. S., et al (2018) A remarkable diversity of parasitoid beetles (Ripiphoridae) in Cretaceous amber, with a summary of the Mesozoic record of Tenebrionoidea, Cretaceous Research 90, 296-310

Bousquet Y., Thomas D. B., et al (2018) Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America, ZooKeys 728, 1-455

Nabozhenko M. V. (2019) The fossil record of darkling beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), Geosciences 9 514, 1-20

Die Urwelt der Schweiz, 89, pl. 8, fig - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

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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