Composition of family:
Mycetophagidae Leach, 1815 (Cretaceous period Recent)
Archaeocrypticidae Kaszab, 1964 (Recent)
Pterogeniidae Crowson, 1953 (Recent)
Ciidae Leach in Samouelle, 1819 (Upper Eocene Recent)
Tetratomidae Billberg, 1820 (Recent)
Melandryidae Leach, 1815 (Lower Cretaceous - Recent)
Scraptiidae Mulsant, 1856 (=Anaspididae Mulsant, 1856) (Lower Cretaceous - Recent)
Mordellidae Latreille, 1802 (Upper Jurassic - Recent)
Ripiphoridae Gemminger, Harold, 1870 (Lower Cretaceous - Recent)
Zopheridae Solier, 1834 (= Colydiidae Erichson, 1842; Monommatidae Blanchard, 1845) (Lower Cretaceous - Recent)
Ulodidae Pascoe, 1869 (Recent)
Perimylopidae St.George, 1939 (Recent)
Chalcodryidae Watt, 1974 (Recent)
Trachelostenidae Lacordaire, 1859 (Recent)
Tenebrionidae Latreille, 1802 (=Alleculidae Laporte, 1840; Lagriidae Latreille, 1825) (Upper Jurassic - Recent)
Prostomidae C.G. Thomson, 1859 (Upper Eocene - Recent)
Synchroidae Lacordaire, 1859 (Lower Oligocene - Recent)
Oedemeridae Latreille, 1810 (Upper Eocene - Recent)
Stenotrachelidae C.G. Thomson, 1859 (=Cephaloidae LeConte, 1862) (Lower Cretaceous - Recent)
Meloidae Gyllenhal, 1810 (Lower Cretaceous - Recent)
Mycteridae Blanchard, 1845 (Lower Eocene - Recent)
Boridae C.G. Thomson, 1859 (Recent)
Trictenotomidae Blanchard, 1845 (Recent)
Pythidae Solier, 1834 (Lower Oligocene - Recent)
Pyrochroidae Latreille, 1807 (=Agnathidae Lacordaire, 1859; Cononotidae LeConte, 1862; Pedilidae Lacordaire, 1859; Pilipalpidae Abdullah, 1964) (Lower Oligocene - Recent)
Salpingidae Leach, 1815 (=Inopeplidae Grouvelle, 1908; Othniidae LeConte, 1861) (Lower Cretaceous - Recent)
Anthicidae Latreille 1819 (=Ischaliidae Blair, 1920) (Lower Cretaceous - Recent)
Aderidae Winkler, 1927 (Lower Cretaceous - Recent)
Literature:
(look a page also Systematic list of fossil beetles of Scarabaeina (3 part))
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Crowson R.A. 1975. The evolutionary history of Coleoptera as documented by fossil and comparative evidence. Atti Congr. naz. Ital. Entomol. 10th. Sassari 1974. 47-90.
Crowson R.A. 1981. The Biology of the Coleoptera. London-New York-Toronto-Sydney-San Francisco, Academic press. 802 p.
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Kirejtshuk A.G. 2000. On origin and early evolution of the supefamily Cucujoidea (Coleoptera, Polyphaga) Comments on the family Helotidae. The Kharkov Entomological Society Gazette, 8 (1): 8-38.
Ponomarenko A.G. 2002. 2.2.1.3.2 Superorder Scarabaeidea Laicharting, 1781, Order Coleoptera Linne, 1758. The beetles. In: Rasnitsyn, A.P. and Quicke, D.L.J. (eds). 2002. History of insects. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London: 164-180.