†Semicoxelus sontagae Alekseev and Pankowski 2020 (ironclad beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Zopheridae
Full reference: V. I. Alekseev and M. G. Pankowski. 2020. A new fossil genus of the tribe Synchitini Erichson (Tenebrionoidea: Zopheridae: Colydiinae) from Eocene Baltic amber. Palaeoentomology 3:607-613
Belongs to Semicoxelus according to V. I. Alekseev and M. G. Pankowski 2020
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MAIG 6693, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (University of Gdansk MAI collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (University of Gdansk MAI collection)
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