Cretodytes Ponomarenko 1977 (predaceous diving beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae

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: Dytiscidae according to A. A. Prokin et al. 2013

See also Carpenter 1992, Nilsson 2001 and Ponomarenko 1977

Sister taxa: Agabinae, Angaragabus, Aubehydrinae, Colymbetinae, Copelatinae, Coptotominae, Cybisterinae, Dytiscinae, Hydroporinae, Laccophilinae, Liadytiscinae, Necticus palustris, Palaeodytes, Sinoporus

Subtaxa: Cretodytes incertus Cretodytes latipes

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Type: Cretodytes latipes

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Kazakhstan (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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