Insecta - Coleoptera - Coptoclavidae
Alternative combination: Necronectes aquaticus
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 Timarchopsis according to B. Wang et al. 2010
See also Ponomarenko 1977 and Soriano et al. 2007
Sister taxa: Timarchopsis cyrenaicus, Timarchopsis czekanowskii, Timarchopsis gigas, Timarchopsis gobiensis, Timarchopsis latus, Timarchopsis longus, Timarchopsis mongolicus, Timarchopsis sainshandensis
Type specimen: PIN 772/23, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Ust-Baley (PIN collection 722), which is in a Toarcian lacustrine - small horizon in the Cheremkhovskaya Formation of the Russian Federation.
Distribution:
• Jurassic of the Russian Federation (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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