| Permocupedidae Temporal range:
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| Fossil and life restoration of Permocupes sojanensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | †Protocoleoptera |
| Superfamily: | †Permocupedoidea |
| Family: | †Permocupedidae Martynov, 1933[1] |
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| Synonyms | |
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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.