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Tetraphalerites

Tetraphalerites is an extinct genus of ommatid archostematan beetle. It contains only one species, Tetraphalerites oligocenicus described by Roy Crowson in 1962 for a specimen from the Priabonian aged Insect Limestone, Bembridge Marls of the Isle of Wight, UK.

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Tetraphalerites
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Ommatidae
Genus: Tetraphalerites
Crowson, 1962
Species:
T. oligocenicus
Binomial name
Tetraphalerites oligocenicus
Crowson, 1962

Tetraphalerites is an extinct genus of ommatid archostematan beetle. It contains only one species, Tetraphalerites oligocenicus described by Roy Crowson in 1962 for a specimen from the Priabonian (late Eocene) aged Insect Limestone, Bembridge Marls of the Isle of Wight, UK.1

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References

  1. Crowson, R. A. (1962). "Observations on the beetle family Cupedidae, with descriptions of two new fossil forms and a key to the recent genera". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 13. 5 (51): 147–157. doi:10.1080/00222936208651227.