Fossil and life restoration of Permocupes sojanensis
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Suborder:
†Protocoleoptera
Superfamily:
†Permocupedoidea
Family:
†Permocupedidae Martynov, 1933[1]
Genera
See text
Synonyms
Kaltanocoleidae Rohdendorf, 1961
Permocupedidae is a family of Protocoleopteran stem group beetles. They first appeared during the Early Permian, and were one of the dominant groups of beetles during the Middle Permian. They became rare in the Late Permian, with only one species known from the Triassic, Frankencupes ultimus from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) Röt Formation of Germany.[2] They are thought to have been xylophagous (wood eating), which is presumed to be the ancestral ecology of beetles.[3]
^Martynov, A.V. (1933). Пермские ископаемые насекомые Архангельского края. Часть II. Сетчатокрылые, вислокрылые и жуки, с приложением описания двух новых жуков из Тихих Гор [Permian fossil insects from the Arkhangelsk District. Part II. Neuroptera, Megaloptera and Coleoptera with the description of two new beetles from Tikhie Gory] (DjVu). Trudy Paleozoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR (in Russian and English). 2: 63–96.
^Ponomarenko, Alexandr G.; Bashkuev, Alexei S. (December 2018). "First Triassic record of the beetle family Permocupedidae (Insecta: Coleoptera): a peculiar example of a Lazarus taxon". PalZ. 92 (4): 587–591. Bibcode:2018PalZ...92..587P. doi:10.1007/s12542-018-0426-4. ISSN 0031-0220. S2CID 133665417.
^Zhao, Xianye; Yu, Yilun; Clapham, Matthew E; Yan, Evgeny; Chen, Jun; Jarzembowski, Edmund A; Zhao, Xiangdong; Wang, Bo (2021-11-08). Perry, George H; Fikacek, Martin (eds.). "Early evolution of beetles regulated by the end-Permian deforestation". eLife. 10: e72692. doi:10.7554/eLife.72692. ISSN 2050-084X. PMC 8585485. PMID 34747694.
Permocupedidae is a family of Protocoleopteran stem group beetles. They first appeared during the Early Permian, and were one of the dominant groups of...
appeared at the beginning of the Permian. Early beetles such as members of Permocupedidae were likely xylophagous, feeding on decaying wood. Several lineages...
Protocoleoptera that contains two known families. The type family is Permocupedidae. Bouchard, P.; Bousquet, Y.; Davies, A.E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A.; Lawrence...
et comb. nov Valid Kirejtshuk Permian South Africa A taldycupedine Permocupedidae. The type species is "Taldycupes" africanus Ponomarenko in Ponomarenko...
preliminarily treating it as a subfamily Taldycupedinae of the family Permocupedidae. Afrotaldycupes Kirejtshuk, 2020 – Beaufort Group, South Africa, Late...
den Heever. 1996. A new beetle, Afrocupes firmae gen. et sp. nov. (Permocupedidae), from the late Palaeozoic Whitehill Formation of South Africa. South...
Alexei S. Bashkuev (2018). "First Triassic record of the beetle family Permocupedidae (Insecta: Coleoptera): a peculiar example of a Lazarus taxon". PalZ...
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