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An amblyopinine rove beetle from the earliest Miocene Foulden Maar fossil-Lagerstätte, New Zealand
1. An amblyopinine rove beetle from the
earliest Miocene Foulden Maar fossil-
Lagerstätte, New Zealand
J. Jenkins Shaw1, A. Solodovnikov2, M. Bai1 & U. Kaulfuss3
1Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2Natural History Museum of Denmark, Zoological Museum
3Department of Animal Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Göttingen, Germany
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2. • Foulden Maar, Otago, New Zealand
• Earliest Miocene (23.2 ± 0.2 Ma)
• Rainforest environment
• Forest floor: ants, beetles inc. Staphylinidae,
Cerambycidae, Chrysomelidae, Curculionidae & poss.
Hydrophilidae known
Introduction
Reconstruction By Paula Peters
• Family: Staphylinidae (rove beetles)
• 64,000 species (936 in NZ, mostly endemic)
• Tribe: Amblyopinini
• Mostly Gondwanan distribution
• Ca. 90 species in NZ (all endemic)
Lee et al., 2016
An Amblyopinini rove beetle from New Guinea
3. Materials & methods
• Single compression fossil
• Rather poorly preserved
• Deposited in Museum of the Geology
Department, University of Otago, New
Zealand
Foulder crater and fossil pit (Uwe Kaulfuss)
4. • Placement in Amblyopinini
• Formation of setae on elytra and
abdomen
• Scutellum with anterior scutellar ridge
only
• Placement in extant genus
• Sphingoquedius meto New species
• Autapomorphy: microsculpture of
pronotum
Results
Sphingoquedius strandi Bernhauer, 1941
5. Discussion & conclusion
• Represents fauna after partial or
complete submergence of NZ
• Likely belongs to clade of NZ+AUS
taxa recovered by molecular data
• Potential future minimum-age
calibration for dated phylogeny
• Other rove beetle fossils to be
studied
Jenkins Shaw et al., 2020
Uwe Kaulfuss Uwe Kaulfuss
Cooper & Cooper, 1995