Beckius Explained

Beckius is an extinct genus of marine whitefish known from the Early Oligocene[1] of California. It contains a single species, B. plicatus, known only from a single fossilized scale from the Tumey Formation, a lens of the Kreyenhagen Shale. The scale was found to resemble those of Coregonus, although significantly different in many ways, leading to its classification as a new genus of Coregoninae.[2] [3] [4]

The genus name was later reused in 1992 for a scarab beetle from New Guinea, until it was discovered to be preoccupied; the beetle was thus renamed Debeckius.[5]

Notes and References

  1. E. R. Atwill (2) . 1935 . Oligocene Tumey Formation of California . AAPG Bulletin . en . 19 . 10.1306/3D932D52-16B1-11D7-8645000102C1865D . 0149-1423.
  2. Web site: PBDB Taxon . 2024-04-19 . paleobiodb.org.
  3. David . Lorre R. . 1946 . Some Typical Upper Eogene Fish Scales from California . Contributions to Paleontology . IV.
  4. Web site: Mineralienatlas - Fossilienatlas . 2024-04-19 . www.mineralienatlas.de . de.
  5. Allsopp . Peter G . 2022-07-01 . Replacement names for Beckius Dechambre, 1992 and Syrictes Prell, 1936, and validation of Neoryctes Arrow, 1908 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) . Zootaxa . 5165 . 2 . 294–300 . 10.11646/zootaxa.5165.2.9 . 1175-5334 . 36095466.

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