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Remarkable stasis in a phloeocharine rove beetle from the Late Cretaceous of New Jersey (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Stylianos Chatzimanolis ,
Alfred F. Newton ,
Carmen Soriano  and
Michael S. Engel
Stylianos Chatzimanolis
Affiliation:
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Dept. 2653, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 615 McCallie Ave., Chattanooga, TN 37403, USA,
Alfred F. Newton
Affiliation:
Division of Insects, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA,
Carmen Soriano
Affiliation:
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, BP220, 6 rue Jules Horowitz, 38043 Grenoble Cedex, France,
Michael S. Engel
Affiliation:
Division of Entomology (Paleoentomology), Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 1501 Crestline Drive, Suite 140, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
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Abstract

The first definitive fossil species of the rove beetle (Staphylinidae) subfamily Phloeocharinae is described and figured from a single individual preserved in Late Cretaceous (Turonian) amber from New Jersey. The species is representative of the extant genus Phloeocharis Mannerheim and is described as Phloeocharis agerata Chatzimanolis, Newton, and Engel, new species. The specimen was imaged using traditional light microscopy as well as synchrotron propagation phase contrast microtomography, permitting a detailed examination of otherwise difficult to observe features. Examination revealed remarkable homogeneity across many characters with those of extant relatives, highlighting considerable morphological stasis in the genus over the last 90 million years.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 87 , Issue 2 , March 2013 , pp. 177 - 182
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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