Tetraphalerites

Tetraphalerites; Temporal range: Priabonian 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:	†Tetraphalerites; Crowson 1962
Binomial name
	†Tetraphalerites oligocenicus; Crowson 1962

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

References[]

^ R. A. Crowson. 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, Series 13 5:147-157

[1] R. A. Crowson. 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, Series 13 5:147-157

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