Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae
Alternative spelling: Cretarabus
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
Parent taxon: Protorabinae according to B. Wang and H. C. Zhang 2011
See also Carpenter 1992, Hong and Wang 1990 and Ponomarenko 1977
Sister taxa: Cordorabus, Lirabus, Lithorabus, Magnirabus, Ovrabites, Penecupes, Protorabus
Subtaxa: Cretarabus medius Cretorabus capitatus Cretorabus latus Cretorabus orientalis Cretorabus ovalis Cretorabus rasnitsyni Cretorabus sulcatus
Type: Cretorabus capitatus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (2 collections), Mongolia (2), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 6 collections including 7 occurrences
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