†Platycoxa jurassica Ponomarenko 1977 (false ground beetle)
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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 armata
Type specimen: PIN 2496/6, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Kenderlyk, Akkolka River (PIN collection 2496), which is in a Norian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Tologoi Formation of Kazakhstan.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Kenderlyk, Akkolka River (PIN collection 2496)
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