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Magnocoleus

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Magnocoleus
Temporal range: Hauterivian–Barremian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Archostemata
Family: Magnocoleidae
Hong, 1998
Genus: Magnocoleus
Hong, 1998
Species:
M. huangjiapuensis
Binomial name
Magnocoleus huangjiapuensis
Hong, 1998

Magnocoleus is an extinct genus of beetles from the Early Cretaceous of China, between 130.0 and 125.45 Mya.[1] The genus contains a single species, Magnocoleus huangjiapuensis, and is the only member of the family Magnocoleidae in the suborder Archostemata.[2][3] Magnocoleus was first described by Chinese palaeoentomologist Hong Youchong in 1998, based on fossils of isolated elytra from the Qingshila Formation in Huangjiapu, near the Nantianmen village of Zhangjiakou in Hebei.[2] Recent phylogenetic analyses have suggested that Magnocoleus is closely related to or placed within either Cupedidae or Ommatidae.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "†Magnocoleus Hong 1998 (beetle)". Fossilworks. Retrieved 2017-03-23.
  2. ^ a b Hong, Y. (1998). 河北早白垩世一个新科大鞘甲科———Magnocoleidae fam.nov.(Insecta: Coleoptera) [A new early Cretaceous beetle family — Magnocoleidae fam. n. (Insecta: Coleoptera) in Hebei Province]. Geoscience — Journal of Graduate School, China University of Geosciences (in Chinese). 12 (1): 40–48. ISSN 1000-8527.
  3. ^ Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; Lawrence, John F.; Lyal, Chris H. C.; Newton, Alfred F.; Reid, Chris A. M.; Schmitt, Michael; Ślipiński, S. Adam; Smith, Andrew B. T. (April 2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. Bibcode:2011ZooK...88....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
  4. ^ Cai, C.; Tihelka, E.; Giacomelli, M.; Lawrence, J.F.; Ślipiński, A.; Kundrata, R.; Yamamoto, S.; Thayer, M.K.; Newton, A.F.; Leschen, R.A.B.; Gimmel, M.L.; Lü, L.; Engel, M.S.; Bouchard, P.; Huang, D.; Pisani, D.; Donoghue, P.C.J. (2022). "Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles". Royal Society Open Science. 9 (3): 211771. Bibcode:2022RSOS....911771C. doi:10.1098/rsos.211771. PMC 8941382. PMID 35345430.