Avitortor primitivus Ponomarenko 1977 (hide beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Trogidae

Full reference: A. G. Ponomarenko. 1977. Suborder Adephaga, Polyphaga Incertae Sedis, Infraorder Staphyliniformia, in Mezozoiskie zhestkokryiye. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 161:17-119

Belongs to Avitortor according to G. V. Nikolajev 2007

See also Nikolajev 1992 and Ponomarenko 1977

Sister taxa: Avitortor dolichodactylus, Avitortor leptoscelis, Avitortor ovalis, Avitortor parallelus

Type specimen: PIN 3064/856, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baissa (PIN collection 3064), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large marl in the Zaza Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baissa (PIN collection 3064)

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