Platycoxa armata Ponomarenko 1977 (false ground beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Trachypachidae

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 Platycoxa according to A. G. Kirejtshuk and J. Ansorge 2022

See also Ponomarenko 1977

Sister taxon: Platycoxa jurassica

Type specimen: PIN 2903/222, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Sogyuty (PIN Collection 2903), which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian lacustrine - small siliciclastic in the Dzhil Formation of Kyrgyzstan.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Kyrgyzstan (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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