Charonoscapha ovata Ponomarenko 1977 (beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Coptoclavidae

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 Charonoscapha according to C. Soriano et al. 2007

See also Ponomarenko 1977

Sister taxon: Charonoscapha grossa

Type specimen: PIN 2997/1845, an exoskeleton (female without head, abdomen, fore- and middle legs). Its type locality is Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2997), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Kazakhstan (4 collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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