Insecta - Coleoptera - Coptoclavidae
Alternative combination: Necronectes gigas
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 aquaticus, Timarchopsis cyrenaicus, Timarchopsis czekanowskii, Timarchopsis gobiensis, Timarchopsis latus, Timarchopsis longus, Timarchopsis mongolicus, Timarchopsis sainshandensis
Type specimen: PIN 2554/477, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2554), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.
Distribution: found only at Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2554)
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