†Protocardiophorus ancestralis Dolin 1976 (click beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae
Full reference: V. G. Dolin. 1976. Fossil click beetles (Coleoptera, Elateridae) of the subfamilies Negastriinae and Cardophorinae from Upper Jurassic of Karatau. Vestnik Zoologii 1976(2):68-75
Belongs to Protocardiophorus according to R. Kundrata et al. 2021
See also Dolin 1976 and Kundrata et al. 2020
Sister taxon: Protocardiophorus jurassicus
Type specimen: PIN 2066/2571, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2066), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2066)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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