Insecta - Coleoptera - Triaplidae
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 Triaplus according to R. G. Beutel et al. 2019
See also Kirejtshuk and Prokin 2018 and Ponomarenko 1977
Sister taxon: Triaplus macroplatus
Type specimen: PIN 2240/179, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Madygen, PIN collection 2240, Dzhailoucho area, which is in a Ladinian lacustrine - small siliciclastic in the Madygen Formation of Kyrgyzstan.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Triassic of Kyrgyzstan (4 collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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