Liassocupes

Liassocupes; Temporal range: Sinemurian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Ommatidae
Genus:	Liassocupes; Zeuner 1962
Binomial name
	Liassocupes parvus; Zeuner 1962

Liassocupes is an extinct genus of Ommatid beetle from the Jurassic period. The only species is Liassocupes parvus. It is known from compression fossils found at Flatstones near Charmouth in the Sinemurian aged part of the Charmouth Mudstone Formation, Dorset^[1] Other species previously assigned to the genus include Liassocupes (?) maculatus described by Whalley in 1985 from the same locality,^[2] but this was subsequently suggested by Ponomarenko to belong to either Omma or Tetraphalerus and was considered to belong to the genus Brochocoleus by Kirejtshuk, 2020. Another species Liassocupes (?) giganteus also described by Whalley 1985 from the same locality, was found to be a member of the genus in the extinct family .^[3]

Sources[]

^ F. E. Zeuner. 1962. Fossil insects from the Lower Lias of Charmouth, Dorset. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 7:155-171
^ P. E. S. Whalley. 1985. The systematics and palaeogeography of the Lower Jurassic insects of Dorset, England. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 39(3):107-189
^ Kirejtshuk, Alexander G. (2020-02-17). "Taxonomic Review of Fossil Coleopterous Families (Insecta, Coleoptera). Suborder Archostemata: Superfamilies Coleopseoidea and Cupedoidea". Geosciences. 10 (2): 73. doi:10.3390/geosciences10020073. ISSN 2076-3263.

[1] F. E. Zeuner. 1962. Fossil insects from the Lower Lias of Charmouth, Dorset. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 7:155-171

[2] P. E. S. Whalley. 1985. The systematics and palaeogeography of the Lower Jurassic insects of Dorset, England. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 39(3):107-189

[3] Kirejtshuk, Alexander G. (2020-02-17). "Taxonomic Review of Fossil Coleopterous Families (Insecta, Coleoptera). Suborder Archostemata: Superfamilies Coleopseoidea and Cupedoidea". Geosciences. 10 (2): 73. doi:10.3390/geosciences10020073. ISSN 2076-3263.

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