Timarchopsis cyrenaicus Ponomarenko 1977

Insecta - Coleoptera - Coptoclavidae

Alternative combination: Necronectes cyrenaicus

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 P. Vršanský et al. 2021

See also Ponomarenko 1977, Soriano et al. 2007 and Wang et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Timarchopsis aquaticus, Timarchopsis czekanowskii, Timarchopsis gigas, Timarchopsis gobiensis, Timarchopsis latus, Timarchopsis longus, Timarchopsis mongolicus, Timarchopsis sainshandensis

Type specimen: PIN 3394/24, an exoskeleton (abdomen and elytra). Its type locality is Brezina, Saida department (PIN collection 3394), which is in a Hauterivian marine siliciclastic in Algeria.

Distribution: found only at Brezina, Saida department (PIN collection 3394)

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