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Paussinae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	262587	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=262587

Rank

subfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Carabidae : Paussinae

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	Adephaga	Clairville 1806
family	Carabidae	Latreille 1802
subfamily	Paussinae	(Latreille 1806)

Common Name

ant nest beetle

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Paussinae	family	belongs to Caraboidea	stated without evidence	Crowson, 1981
Paussinae	subfamily	belongs to Carabidae	stated without evidence	Lawrence and Newton, 1995
Paussinae	subfamily	belongs to Carabidae	stated with evidence	Nagel, 1997

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

9 (18%)

First Recorded Appearance

48.6 - 40.4 Ma
Eocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. Bouchard, Y. Bousquet, and A. E. Davies, M. A. Alonso-Zarazaga, J. F. Lawrence, C. H. C. Lyal, A. F. Newton, C. A. M. Reid, M. Schmitt, A. lipiski, A. B. T. Smith. 2011. Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys 88:1-972

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ozaenini tribe	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Paussini tribe	listed (PBDB)	10	48.6 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Cerapterites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Paussoides ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Paussopsis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Pleurarthropterus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	15	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Succinarthropterus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1806	Paussidae Latreille
1838	Ozaenidae Hope
1861	Ozaenidae LeConte p. 14
1981	Paussidae Crowson p. 694
1995	Paussinae Lawrence and Newton, Jr.
1997	Paussinae Nagel
2003	Paussinae Wappler
2011	Paussinae Bouchard et al.

References

Bouchard P., Bousquet Y., et al (2011) Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta), ZooKeys 88, 1-972

Crowson R. A. (1981) The Biology of the Coleoptera, Academic Press, New York

Lawrence J. F., Newton, Jr. A. F. (1995) Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera, Biology, Phylogeny and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A Crowson, 779-1006

Nagel P. (1997) New fossil paussids from Dominican amber with notes on the phylogenetic systematics of the paussine complex (Coleoptera: Carabidae), Systematic Entomology 22, 345-362

Wappler T. (2003) Die Insekten aus dem Mittel-Eozän des Eckfelder Maares, Vulkaneifel, Mainzer Naturwissenschaftliches Archiv, Beiheft 27, 1-234

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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